" The white man, as one Indian said, “was in the Black Hills just like maggots”;10 wasicu, or “the greedy one” (literally, “he-who-takes-the-fat”),11 was the term the Lakota used to describe the miners, and it later became their term for whites in general. “The love of possessions is a disease with them,” said Sitting Bull, who was never behindhand in his contempt. "

― Peter Matthiessen , In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the FBI's War on the American Indian Movement