"We prefered our own way of living...all we ever wanted  was peace and to be left alone."

          (Chief Crazy Horse,Oglalasioux, 1877)

    "Words spoken by an Indianchief"

"The snow is covering the ground and we have been waiting for the money you have promised us for a long time now. We are poor and have nothing to eat - you have plenty of it. Your fire keeps you warm. Your house keeps the cold outside. We have sold our hunting grounds and our fathers graves. Even our own graves have we sold to you. We have no place to put   the bones of our dead - and still you don´t want to pay us for our land".

"We Indians are like an island in an ocean of whites. We have to stick together  or we will be exterminated. The soldiers are here....They wish for war. and so be it...."                      
  (Chief Sitting Bull, Hunkapapa sioux)