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" [I Cheyenne] decisero di smontare i loro migliori fucili e pistole, lasciando intatti solo quelle inservibili da presentare nel caso il capo dei soldati ordinasse loro di consegnare le armi. trascorsero tutta la notte a nascondere i fucili, dando le canne alle donne perché le occultassero sotto i loro abiti, legando le molle, i percussori, gli aghi e le cartucce e altri piccoli pezzi insieme alle perline e mettendoli sui mocassini come se fossero ornament. Come era prevedibile, il mattino seguente il capitano Johnson ordinò ai suoi uomini di disarmare i Cheyenne. Essi accatastano le pistole, i fucili inutilizzabili, gli archi e le frecce, e il capitano permise ai soldati di prenderselì come souvenir. "
― Dee Brown , Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
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" Although this country was once wholly inhabited by Indians, the tribes, and many of them once powerful, who occupied the countries now constituting the states east of the Mississippi, have, one by one, been exterminated in their abortive attempts to stem the western march of civilization. … If any tribe remonstrated against the violation of their natural and treaty rights, members of the tribe were inhumanly shot down and the whole treated as mere dogs. … It is presumed that humanity dictated the original policy of the removal and concentration of the Indians in the West to save them from threatened extinction. But today, by reason of the immense augmentation of the American population, and the extension of their settlements throughout the entire West, covering both slopes of the Rocky Mountains, the Indian races are more seriously threatened with a speedy extermination "
― Dee Brown , Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West