The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men – go to farming, work hard and do as they did – and the Indians did not know how to do that, and did not want to anyway…If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many Indian.
– Ten Bears
Chief Ten Bears (Para-Wa-Samen) of the Tamparika Comanches, 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.