"Whatever you wanted of me I have obeyed. The Great Father sent me word that whatever he had against me in the past had been forgiven and thrown aside, and I have accepted his promises and came in. And he told me not to step aside from the white man's path, and I am doing my best to travel in that path. I sit here and look around me now, and I see my people starving. We want cattle to butcher. That is the way you live, and we want to live the same way." --- Sitting Bull, 1883
Sitting Bull's point in this passage is that
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his people are suffering because of the settlers
his people are suffering because of the settlers
the Great Father told him a fatal lie.
the Great Father told him a fatal lie.
his people would prefer to be farmers.
his people would prefer to be farmers.
there can be no choice but to violently resist Americans