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=Removal Stories and Complants About Whites=


 * Carl Sweezy, 1966:** The white men came to this land expecting us to learn their ways of life and become like them. But they had no respect for our ways of life and and didn't care to learn or understand them.


 * Smaholla, 1850:** The white men had us do their work for them and without any help or giving them anything in return.


 * Satanta, 1867:** When the whites came, they took control. We didn't want them and they kill mother nature. The land belongs to us and they took it with no respect towards us.


 * Ten Bears, 1867:** Indians were here first and we deserve the land and we want the white men to be peaceful and if we did, we will go down without blood or violence. We will go in peace, we were living free and perfect until the white men came.

"We will avoid them if we can. If we can not, we will fight." "The life my people want, is the life of freedom."
 * Sitting Bull, 1879:** We will always be indians and we will never change and if they can't live the way we do, we will change to something else, but we will never join the white men.


 * Sitting Bear, 1867:** When the white men first came, they were good friends. We helped the whites with food and hunting, and showed them our ways of life. But we trusted them too much and the whites turned their backs and built forts and guns and became indian enemies and forced us like cattle into reservations and cared for us no more.


 * Striking Eagle, 1874:** The white men and government took away our buffalo and left us with nothing. The buffalo belong to all of the people and they belong to the land, and mother nature. When the whites take our buffalo they didn't think about how it would impacted our life.

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