I have heard that you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don’t want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.

– Satanta

Chief of the Kiowas, in a speech to the government peace commissioners at Fort Larned. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.