“Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?”

—  Black Kettle

Source: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970), p. 148
Context: We were once friends with the whites, but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other. Why don't you talk, and go straight, and let all be well?

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