Black Hawk Quotes

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.’
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Answer Asked Compassionate Feed Grandson
How smooth must be the language of the whites, when they can make right look like wrong, and wrong like right.
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Country Language Looks 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.
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Goddamn Understand Woke
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.
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Bad Death Eat Men Nation Wolves
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.
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Country Heart Native Success
Nothing can be sold but such things as can be carried away
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Away Carried Nothing Soil Sold
Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.
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Country Hero Native Sometimes Way
The white men speak bad of the Indian, and look at him spitefully. But the Indian does not tell lies; Indians do not steal.
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Country Look People Steal Tell
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.
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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.
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Children Country Native Out Wisdom Work
I got my best foot forward onto greener grass, cause there ain’t no future living in the past.
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Country Feet Native Past Philosophy
[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.
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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.
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Children Country Land Native
When I get home and people ask me,’Hey, Hoot, why do you do it, man? What are you? Some kind of war junkie?
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Country Home Junkie Men Native People War
The white men despise the Indians, and drive them from their homes. But the Indians are not deceitful.
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Country Home Lying Men Native

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