Robert L. Peters

8 April 2012

Happy Spring!

The above text is the opening paragraph of a speech that Sitting Bull (c. 1830-1890), the great Sioux leader and sharp-witted speaker, gave in 1885 at an Indian council at Powder River, describing his mistrust of the American people. Read the rest of his speech here… a telling moment in time, just over a year before Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and 1800 other Sioux and Cheyenne warriors wiped out an army led by General George Custer at Little Big Horn.

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