When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected … - Joseph Bruchac

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Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

Joseph Bruchac

When the Lakota leader Sitting Bull was asked by a white reporter why his people loved and respected him, Sitting Bull replied by asking if it was not true that among white people a man is respected because he has many horses, many houses? When the reporter replied that was indeed true, Sitting Bull then said that his people respected him because he kept nothing for himself.

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