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
Butchered Innocence
B
Promises and Betrayal
P
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
Heart Poisoned
H
The white men do not scalp the head; but they do worse—they poison the heart.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Eagles and Crows
E
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Misunderstood Wilderness
M
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
Death and Change
D
There is no death, only a change of worlds.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Treaty Integrity
T
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Tired of Fighting
T
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
Equality and Earth
E
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
Invisible Dead
I
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