I realized that something would happen to me today, but I did not know what it would be.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Unknown Future
U
Rights Defense
R
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Mother Earth Abuse
M
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Fool’s Reflection
F
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Free Man’s Wish
F
Let me be a free man – free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Freedom in Poverty
F
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Biased Reporting
B
The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
People and History
P
A people without history is like wind on the buffalo grass.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Undertaking and Unity
U
I have seen that in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Dee Brown – Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Historical Instruction
H
History does not repeat itself, but it does instruct.
Miguel Syjuco – Ilustrado