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Satanta
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“A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up the river I see a camp of soldiers, and they are cutting my wood down or killing my buffalo. I don't like that; when I see it my heart feels like bursting with sorrow.”
Satanta (1820–1878) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a speech at the Medicine Lodge Treaty council, October, 1867 Texas Beyond History
“The Kiowas and Comanche have made with you a peace, and they intend to stick to it. If it brings prosperity to us, of course we will like it better. If it brings poverty and adversity, we will not abandon it, because it is our contract, and it will stand. We hope now that a better time has come. If all would talk and then do as they talk, the sun of peace would forever shine.”
Satanta (1820–1878) first seen 1867 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From "a peace council held in October, 1867, on the Arkansas river, in the present state of Oklahoma, between United States peace commissioners and the principal chiefs of four Indian tribes." J. Marvin Hunter’s Frontie…