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Crazy Horse
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“Another white man's trick! Let me go! Let me die fighting!!!!”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: During the final confrontation in which he was fatally wounded, as quoted in Indian Heroes and Great Chieftains (1919) by Charles Alexander Eastman
“My lands are where my dead lie buried.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in National Geographic Vol. CX (July-December 1956), p. 487
“One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (1970) by Dee Brown, Ch. 12
“A very great vision is needed, and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in To Be Just Is to Love : Homilies for a Church Renewing (2001) by Walter J. Burghardt, p. 214
“My friend, I do not blame you for this. Had I listened to you this trouble would not have happened to me. I was not hostile to the white men. Sometimes my young men would attack the Indians who were their enemies and took their ponies. They did it in return. We had buffalo for food, and their hides for clothing and for our tepees. We preferred hunting to a life of idleness on the reservation, where we were driven against our will. At times we did not get enough to eat and we were not allowed to leave the reservation to hunt. We preferred our own way of living. We were no expense to the government. All we wanted was peace and to be left alone. Soldiers were sent out in the winter, they destroyed our villages. The "Long Hair" [Custer] came in the same way. They say we massacred him, but he would have done the same thing to us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the last. Our first impulse was to escape with our squaws and papooses, but we were so hemmed in that we had to fight. After that I went up on the Tongue River with a few of my people and lived in peace. But the government would not let me alone. Finally, I came back to the Red Cloud Agency. Yet, I was not allowed to remain quiet. I was tired of fighting. I went to the Spotted Tail Agency and asked that chief and his agent to let me live there in peace. I came here with the agent [Lee] to talk with the Big White Chief but was not given a chance. They tried to confine me. I tried to escape, and a soldier ran his bayonet into me. I have spoken.”
Crazy Horse (1849–1877) said by 1877 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted in Literature of the American Indian (1973) by Thomas Edward Sanders and Walter W. Peek, p. 294