“I was liable at any moment to run into a party of his young men who might be out hunting, and as I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.”Tagged: Sioux, Trail of Tears, Hunting
“The Indian makes a good citizen, a good farmer, a good soldier. He is a real American, and all those of us who have come to share with him the great land that was his heritage should do their share toward seeing that he is dealt with justly and fairly, and that his rights and liberties are never…”Tagged: Indian, citizen, Soldier, Land, Law
“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game that was our meat. In 1868 he arranged to build through the Indians' land a road on which ran iron horses that ate wood and breathed fire and smoke. We agreed. This road was only as wide…”Tagged: White Man, Trail of Tears, Manifest Destiny, Indians, Native Americans
“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in…”Tagged: Indians, Native Americans, creator, Manifest Destiny
“In concluding, I want to express the hope that the dealings of this Government of ours with the Indians will always be just and fair. They were the inheritors of the land that we live in. They were not capable of developing it, or of really appreciating its possibilities, but they owned it when the…”Tagged: Government, Indians, Native Americans, Warfare, White Man
“You say your health is bad. if I had you to fork some of my pitching horses [3] and go it on corn bread straight in this great and glourious [sic] climate for a few months I would fix you.”Tagged: Health, Cornbread, Climate
“I wonder What Kind of an—ungrateful rooster you take me for.”Tagged: Ingratitude, rooster, Ungrateful Rooster
“That is I never say that I kill an Indian without I get his scalp. I sent two scalps east to the Sentennial [sic] and have one on the boat with me that I killed one week ago yestarday [sic]. But it came near being my last. for the indians [sic] had the first shot and tore a small piece out of my…”Tagged: Scalping, Native Americans, Indians, Centennial
“We have had a fight I killed Yellow Hand A Cheyenne Chief. in a single handed fight You will no doupt [sic] hear of it through the papers…I fought single-handed in sight of our command and the cheers that went up when he fell was deafening.”Tagged: Fight, Hand to Hand Combat, Murder, Cheyenne
“God has taken from us our only little Boy. He was to good for this world. We loved him to dearly he could not stay. God wanted him where he could live in a better world. So he sent the angel of death. to take whe [sic] the treasure that he had given us five years and five months ago. and how dear he…”Tagged: Loss, Child's Death, God, Angel of Death
“I have just returned from a big hunt. The Indians in this country are on the war path.”Tagged: Hunting, Indians, Native Americans, Warpath
“If a woman can do the same work that a man can do and do it just as well, she should have the same pay.”Tagged: Gender Equity, Wage Gap
“Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.”Tagged: Indian, native american, Broken Treaties, Trail of Tears