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They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
I did not know then how much was ended. When I look back now from this high hill of my old age, I can still see the butchered women and children lying heaped and scattered.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
In the government’s dealings with the Indians, the conclusions were foregone in the premises.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
We did not think of the great open plains, the beautiful rolling hills, and winding streams with tangled growth, as ‘wild’. Only to the white man was nature a ‘wilderness’.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed… The old men are all dead… My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
When the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee