My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills … - Standing Bear

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So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

Standing Bear

My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska.

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You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more. . . . My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here. . . . I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land. . . . When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us. . . . My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.

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There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth.

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