If the Great Father kept white men out of my country, then peace would last forever. The great spirit raised me up in this land and has raised you in another land. What I have said I mean. I mean to keep this land.
– Red Cloud
In message sent on behalf of the Sioux to government’s peace commissioners’ meeting at North Platte, Nebraska. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.