Red Cloud

They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

There will be a great loss of learning before the moon's full cycle is completed. Fire and floods will be fomented by ignorant rulers; much time will go by before it is rectified.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.