Has the white man become a child that he should recklessly kill and not eat? When the red men slay game, they do so that they may live and not starve.
– Satanta
Kiowa chief’s complaint to U.S. Army commander, after witnessing soldiers and civilians wantonly killing large number of buffalo for sport. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown. Chapter 11.