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If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

Black Hawk

[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands.
BLACK HAWK

Country Men Native War Years
My reason teaches me that land cannot be sold. The Great Spirit gave it to his children to live upon. So long as they occupy and cultivate it, they have a right to the soil.
BLACK HAWK

Children Country Land Native
I won’t say a goddamn word. Why? They won’t understand. They won’t understand why we do it. They won’t understand that it’s about the men next to you. And that’s it. That’s all it is.
BLACK HAWK

Goddamn Understand Woke
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
BLACK HAWK

Country Language Looks Native
The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal.
BLACK HAWK

Country Look People Steal Tell
When I get home and people ask me,’Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie?
BLACK HAWK

Country Home Junkie Men Native People War
Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away
BLACK HAWK

Away Carried Nothing Soil Sold
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, ‘I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart.
BLACK HAWK

Country Heart Native Success
One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.’ The grandson asked him, ‘Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?’ The grandfather answered, ‘The one I feed.’
BLACK HAWK

Answer Asked Compassionate Feed Grandson
I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain’t no future living in the past.
BLACK HAWK

Country Feet Native Past Philosophy
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful.
BLACK HAWK

Country Home Lying Men Native
What, do y’all think you’re heroes?’ I didn’t know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I’d say no. I’d say there’s no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.
BLACK HAWK

Again Asked Heroes Sometimes Think Way
If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.
BLACK HAWK

Children Country Native Out Wisdom Work
An Indian, who is as bad as the white men, could not live in our nation; he would be put to death, and eat up by the wolves.
BLACK HAWK

Bad Death Eat Men Nation Wolves
Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
BLACK HAWK

Country Hero Native Sometimes Way

If you treat a sick child as an adult and a sick adult as a child, it usually works out pretty well.

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