You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed.
Standing BearIf a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him.
Standing BearGod never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.
Standing Bear