You have put all our heads together and covered them with a blanket. That hill there is our wealth, but you have been asking it from us...You white people, you have all come in our reservation and helped yourselves to our property, and you are not satisfied, you went beyond to take the whole of our safe.

You have put all our heads together and covered them with a blanket. That hill there is our wealth, but you have been asking it from us…You white people, you have all come in our reservation and helped yourselves to our property, and you are not satisfied, you went beyond to take the whole of our safe.

– Dead Eyes

Lakota chief to federal agents in 1875. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West, by Dee Brown. Chapter 12.

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