The Wasichus [Whites] did not care for each other the way our people did before the nation’s hoop was broken. They would take everything from each other if they could…They had forgotten that the earth was their mother. This could not be better than the old ways of my people.
– Black Elk
After joining the Wild West Show and traveling to Chicago and New York to learn from the Whites. Black Elk Speaks, by John G Neihardt.