Red Cloud

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

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.

America stands for the land of opportunity.

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

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.