This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side. - Sitting Bull

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.

– Sitting Bull

Referring to the white people. Speech at an Indian council at the Powder River in 1877.