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Notable Quotes - The People of the Plains

Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:35 PM EST
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I love this land and the buffalo and will not part with it. I want you to understand what I say.  Write it on paper...I hear a great deal of good talk from the gentlemen the Great Father sends us, but they never do what they say. I don't want any of the medicine lodges (schools and church's) within the country.  I want the children raised as I was.  I have heard you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains.  I don't want to settle.  I love to roam over the prairies.  There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die.  A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks.  These soldiers cut down my timber, they kill my buffalo and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting.

- Santana, Kiowa Chief.

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The words of Santana, Kiowa Chief when he and his people were being forced onto reservations.

  • 5 votes
Reply#1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:36 PM EST
Enoch-2699399

Dear Friend Kavika: We must remember, so that the past can be corrected, not its worst parts repeated. Memory is an important part of progress.

Enoch.

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Reply#2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:46 PM EST
Kavika

Enoch niijii, thanks for visiting. You are correct, we must remember.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#2.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 1:03 PM EST
grump in NM

The loss was everyone's loss. Native American and white lost something important.

Enoch is right.

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#2.2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 5:15 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by grump. Yes, we all lost something. Hopefully we can get it back.

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 2 votes
#2.3 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 7:00 PM EST
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MoonCrow

A sadness for sure ... and tragic ... just tragic ...

  • 3 votes
Reply#3 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 12:52 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by MoonCrow. It is tragic, you can feel the pain in his words.

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#3.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 1:04 PM EST
Marine24

The white man has not kept but one of his promises to my people,

He promised to take our lands.

Not a direct quote but in the same gist. From Red Cloud.

  • 4 votes
#3.2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 2:36 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting Marine....''He kept only one promise'' That is very true.

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#3.3 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 2:48 PM EST
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screminmimi

They took everything but our will to remain... and here we still are, and shall ever stay.

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Reply#4 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 5:18 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by screminmimi. Yes, we are still here and shall be forever. We are ''Mother Earth's'' children.

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 4 votes
#4.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 7:01 PM EST
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Grisham

I agree with Enoch. The tragedy continues as well. Thanks for sharing the quote, Kav.

  • 2 votes
Reply#5 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 5:42 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for stopping by Grisham. His words grab your heart, you can feel their freedom slipping away.

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 4 votes
#5.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 7:02 PM EST
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RAY FRIEDMAN

The native American , the true guardian of the land and the concept of freedom, has history become so distorted that we have forgotten who the real imposers were?The irony behind the those thst say they come inpeace, innovators of civilization , yet one must comply to thier conformities or perish.We have seen this all through out history and sadly enough till the present.

  • 4 votes
Reply#6 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 7:41 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting RAY. Your quite correct in your comment.

Waanakiwin (peace)

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#6.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 8:42 PM EST
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J. Lemert Whitmer

Treachery leaves such a scar.

It is very difficult to lift it off.

Would that it were possible

to go back in time.

Go back in time

and erase the awful mistakes.

But then, what would it gain

an imperfect being?

To go back to smudge the history

given us by those who have gone before....?

  • 4 votes
Reply#7 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 9:09 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting J. Lemert, ''Treachery leaves such a scar'' that is very true.

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#7.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 9:14 PM EST
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tzia62

"Never Forget."

  • 6 votes
Reply#8 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 9:33 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting tzia...yes ''Never Forget''...

Waanakiwin niijii

  • 4 votes
#8.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:23 PM EST
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deepwater don

" From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more, forever". Was it Chief Joseph?

Am not well versed on particular quotes, but remember reading this one as a small boy reading biographys in grade school. It really moved me in its' passion, not just what was said, but the impact of how and why it was said.

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Reply#9 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:19 PM EST
Kavika

Thanks for visiting deepwater. Yes, it was Chief Joseph, a truly great leader and orator.

Waanakiwin (peace)

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Reply#10 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:22 PM EST
deepwater don

I am glad I got that right. Guess my old memory retained a very important fact from long ago childhood. I live in WA and Chief Joseph interacted with the missionaries (the Whitmans) in eastern WA and ID when they were still part of the Oregon Territories. There is still a Nez Pierce reservation in the area. Went there with my parents as a child and would love to go again. Alot of history there.

  • 3 votes
Reply#11 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:31 PM EST
Kavika

Actually there is a person on nv that is the great granddaugher of Chief Joseph. The Nez Pierce are part of the Salish people and there are many of them around the WA area.

Get in the car and go to the rez deepwater, you'll enjoy it and it will probably bring back wonderful memories for you.

FR sent.

Waanakiwin niijii

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#11.1 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 10:39 PM EST
deepwater don

Accepted with many thanks. Actually there are many Salish 'tribes' in the neighborhood around Puget Sound and out on the Pacific Coast. Many tribes, just small bands of 50 members or so. They knew too many members would dopleat the resources, so they kept their territiry small and conserved. Closest tribe to me was just 20 miles down the valley. Upper Skagit Valley tribe. Hardly any left, but they do have gillnet fishing rights, from their ancestors here on the Skagit River.

  • 3 votes
#11.2 - Tue Feb 7, 2012 11:03 PM EST
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