Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear More Quotes by Standing Bear More Quotes From Standing Bear If a white man had land, and some one should swindle him, that man would try to get it back, and you would not blame him. Standing Bear white-man land men God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does. Standing Bear deals doe men You have driven me from the East to this place, and I have been here two thousand years or more....My friends, if you took me away from this land it would be very hard for me. I wish to die in this land. I wish to be an old man here....I have not wished to give even a part of it to the Great Father. Though he would give me a million dollars or more I would not give to him this land....When people want to slaughter cattle they drive them along until they get them to a corral, and then they slaughter them. So it was with us....My children have been exterminated; my brother has been killed. Standing Bear brother father children There is one God, and He made both Indians and white men. We were all made out of the dust of the earth. Standing Bear white-man dust men Friends and brothers, The Almighty created us Indians. We are as he made us. The Almighty has given to the whites a book to read, and they have plenty of things to work with. The Indian has no book. He cannot read. Standing Bear almighty brother book My first years were spent living just as my forefathers had lived - roaming the green, rolling hills of what are now the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. Standing Bear nebraska rolling years And when native man left off this form of development, his humanization was retarded in growth. Standing Bear man left growth development
