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10 quotes by Red Cloud

Red Cloud Born Maȟpíya Lúta 1822 near North Platte, Nebraska Died December 10, 1909 Pine Ridge, South Dakota Resting place Red Cloud Cemetery, Pine Ridge 43°4′38″N 102°35′1″W / 43.07722°N 102.58361°W / 43.07722; -102.58361 (Grave of Red Cloud (Maȟpíya Lúta)) Residence Pine Ridge, South Dakota Nationality Oglala Lakota Other names "Chief Red Cloud" Known for Red Cloud's War Successor Chief Jack Red Cloud Religion Lakota religion, later...
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good.... →

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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.

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We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

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Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

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The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

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You whites make all the ammunition.

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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my... →

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The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

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The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

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