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We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
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Better Greatness Ignorance Myself Place Spirit Suffering
We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
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Love Money Need Peace Rich
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
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Man Myself Nation Old Peace Poor War Young
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
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Children Goodness Love Myself Naked Nation Peace Poor Theft Training
When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.
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Man Myself Name Nation Peace Poor War Young
Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land – the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can’t see it.
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Father Greatness Kindness Myself People Rise Sun Voice Warrior
We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. To seek for gold in the far west, Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. His presence here is an insult to the spirits of our ancestors.
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Country Father Give Up Gold Greatness Insult Presence Seek Spirit Travel
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
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Appearance Myself See White
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
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Gold Man Theft White
The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.
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Gold Man They Wealth White
I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace all our days, and that He will look down upon our children and finally lift us far above this earth.
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Blessing Earth Father Greatness Hope Myself Peace
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
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Death Goodness Live World Yourself
Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.
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Age Goodness Live Time World Yourself
You whites make all the ammunition.
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Build White Yourself
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.
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Land Ourselves Promise Remember
The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
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Greatness Ignorance Myself Place Spirit Suffering World

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

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