Big Eagle
The whites were always trying to
make the Indians give up their life and live like white men—go to farming,
work hard and do as they did—and the Indians did not know how to do that, and
did not want to anyway . . . . If the Indians had tried to make the whites live
like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many
Indians.
--Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of the Santee Sioux