When people come to trouble, it is better for both parties to come together without arms and talk it over and find some peaceful way to settle it.
– Spotted Tail
Chief of the Brule Sioux. From his speech in Nebraska where government commissioners came to negotiate with the various Sioux agencies for the Black Hills, where gold had been found. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.