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A sustained campaign, in short, would have meant an end to the Sioux way of life just as surely as defeat at the hands of the whites meant an end to the old life style. The Sioux could not simultaneously be free and be effective soldiers. They chose to remain free.

I know of no country, indeed, where the love of money has taken stronger hold on the affections of men, and where a profounder contempt is expressed for the theory of permanent equality of property. -Alexis de Tocqueville