Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows…What has been done in my country I did not want, did not ask for it; white people going through my country…When the white man comes in my country he leaves a trail of blood behind him…I have two mountains in that country – the Black Hills and the Big Horn Mountain. I want the Great Father to make no roads through them. I have told these things three times; now I have come here to tell them the fourth time.
– Red Cloud
The Oglala Sioux chief, in speech to the Secretary of the Interior Jacob Cox in Washington in 1870. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.