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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.
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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
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Getting the goodness of light-skinned society ... Learn to live among them, learn their education, their language - all the goodness.
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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
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After the seventh generation, we would become self-sufficient by taking their goodness and that (goodness) of the Lakota,
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You whites make all the ammunition.
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I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.
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Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it...
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