They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!

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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

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