I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there are no enclosures and where everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. I know every stream and every wood between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas. I have hunted and lived over that country. I lived like my fathers before me, and, like them, I lived happily.
– Ten Bears
The Tamparika Comanches chief, in a speech to peace commissioners at Medicine Lodge Council in 1867. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.