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Treaties
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Wherever we went, the soldiers came to kill us, And it was all our own country. It was ours already when the Wasichus made the treaty with Red Cloud, that said it would be ours is long as grass should grow and water flow. That was only eight winter’s before, and they were chasing us now because we remembered and they forgot.
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― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
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I'll never forget how the gray October light reflected off the glass and filled the space with a weight that didn't seem to befit the room. I knew that the Treaty of Versailles was signed in that mirrored hallway, and with that gray light, it seemed as though the World War I era was still ensconced in there.
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