You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be ploughed for corn? Dakotas, I am for war!


speech at council at Fort Laramie, 1866; Charles A. Eastman Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1918)

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You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we...

You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we...

You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we...

You have heard the sound of the white soldier's axe upon the Little Piney. His presence here is…an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we...