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"Hear me people: We now have to deal with another race--- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possessions is a disease with them. These people have made many rules which the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." Chief Sitting Bull
That is because Sitting Bull is describing people like yourself, you cannot see your own reflection in what he said
I would recommend reading the journals of Lewis and Clark and educating yourself.
They ran out of blue beads aka "chief beads" while trading with the Indians on their journey. The other main items tribes wanted to trade for were guns, axes etc. so they could fight other tribes. (Do you know how Sitting Bull got that name? Hint: Killing Crow)
That's how whites got established in those areas, tribes considered them weak but could get wheapons etc. from them.
They also practiced slavery....which is how Sacajawea wound up in Lewis and Clarks party.
While his comments aren't completely in error especially at that time in the west....there were good and bad parts to the various indian cultures which were quite diverse.
I just heard on the news today that the US is the number one consumer purchaser of plastic junk, er, exports from Asia (China in particular).
How many other countries have a population of over 300,000,000? I'll answer that for you - it's two, and neither of them have a large population of people with enough disposable income to buy "plastic junk."
Sometimes you have to actually THINK about the information that wafts into your head - particularly if your sources are, well, your sources...
"Hear me people: We now have to deal with another race--- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possessions is a disease with them. These people have made many rules which the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule." Chief Sitting Bull
whaddya think about these words?
The funny thing is, when the Sioux first met the new race, they met europeans trying to get away and live life free. By the time those words were said, the rich included people of three races, as there were rich people of dark color, rich people of asian background, and rich people of european descent.
The Sioux included all who were not native, as another race.
Much like the various Native American tribes all did to each other.
Cry me a river.
I think what Sitting Bull was commenting on is what Americans were willing to do to other Americans. He no doubt came of age during the Civil War and watched or heard of what Americans could do to each other. Yes, tribes did it to other tribes but not members of their own tribe. What tribes did to other tribes was no different than what the British, Irish, French and Spain were doing to each other.
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