Dee Brown

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”

“Nothing lives longOnly the earth and mountains”

“To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and their birds and beasts, the grassy grades, the water, the soil, the air itself.”

“The white people were as thick and numerous and aimless as grasshoppers, moving always in a hurry but never seeming to get to whatever place it was they were going to.”