"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
(1 point)
the Great Father told him a fatal lie.
his people would prefer to be farmers.
there can be no choice but to violently resist Americans
his people are suffering because of the settlers