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The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull
The Lance and the Shield The Life and Times of Sitting Bull Author:Robert M. Utley As for Indians who made peace with the whites and took their presents, they had better do as he did -- go to the buffalo country, eat plenty of meat, and when they needed a horse go to some fort and steal one. — "Look at me," he challenged some listening Assiniboines. "See if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you s... more »ay, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee."
Such would be his [Sitting Bull's] creed until, as he foresaw, the whites got him at last.« less