I want to know what you are doing, traveling on this road. You scare all the buffalo away. I want to hunt in this place. I want you to turn back from here. If you don’t, I will fight you again. I want you to leave what you have got here and turn back from here.
I am your friend.
– Sitting Bull
Letter to U.S. Army Colonel E. S. Otis, after a daring attack on his wagon train.