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 were to give me a million dollars I would not give 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.
– Standing Bear
Chief of the Poncas. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.