"whatever you wanted of me i have obeyed. the great father sent me word that whatever he had against me in the past had been forgiven and thrown aside, and i have accepted his promises and came in. and he told me not to step aside from the white man's path, and i am doing my best to travel in that path. i sit here and look around me now, and i see my people starving. we want cattle to butcher. that is the way you live, and we want to live the same way."
sitting bull, 1883