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" Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love! "
Friends
Sun
Spring
" Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. "
Good
His
Necessary
" Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. "
Each
Spirit
Man
" Every seed is awakened, and all animal life. "
Seed
Every
Animal
" God made me an Indian. "
Indian
Me
God
" He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. "
Wishes
Heart
Plans
" I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. "
Me
Place
Man
" I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. "
Will
I Am
Am
" If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean. "
Wish
Feel
Children
" If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place. "
Place
Man
Great
" If we must die, we die defending our rights. "
Defending
Rights
Our
" In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. "
Days
Things
Learn
" Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country? "
I Am
Father
Red
" It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. "
Necessary
Crows
Eagles
" It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. "
Power
Neighbors
Mysterious
" I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself. "
Great
Myself
Patriotism
" I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. "
Intentions
Out
Sorry
" I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. "
Wish
Tribe
Surrender
" Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. "
Minds
Together
Life
" Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. "
Poor
White
Now
" Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also. "
Now
Forever
Us
" Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. "
Mind
Enough
Love
" The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love. "
Results
Sun
Earth
" There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. "
Purpose
Good
Home
" Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. "
Great
Father
Our
" The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. "
Everything
White
Man
" 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. "
Mother
Environmental
Earth
" They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time. "
Us
First Time
Want
" This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. "
Banks
Who
Path
" What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. "
Broken
Kept
Treaty
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