The white people are wicked. I want you to teach my people to read and write, but they must not become white people in their ways of living and of thinking; it is too bad a life. I could not let them do it - Sitting Bull

The white people are wicked. I want you to teach my people to read and write, but they must not become white people in their ways of living and of thinking; it is too bad a life. I could not let them do it.

– Sitting Bull

To Congregational church missionary Mary Collins. Prairie Man: The Struggle between Sitting Bull and Indian Agent James McLaughlin, by Norman E. Matteoni.