Our Great Father has a big safe, and so have we. The hill is our safe…We want seventy million dollars for the Black Hills. Put the money away some place at interest so we can buy livestock. That is the way the white people do.
– Spotted Bear
Chief of the Ogala Sioux puts a price on the his people’s land. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown.