You who eat three times a day and see your children well and happy around you cannot understand what a starving Indian feels! We were faint with hunger and maddened by despair. We held our dying children and felt their little bodies tremble as their soul went out and left only a dead weight in our hands.
– Red Cloud
Speech after massacre at Wounded Knee, where 150-300 Lakota Sioux were killed by U.S. soldiers on December 29, 1890.