“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. We cannot dwell side by side.”

— Sitting Bull

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Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831–1890

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