"Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1873 said, 'There is no question of national dignity... involved in the treatment of savages by a civilized power.' He went on to say that the purpose of the reservation was to reduce "the wild beats to the condition of supplicants for charity."

"Colonel George Custer was a champion of the view that the nature of the aborigine was far more "cruel and ferocious" than that of any "wild beast of the desert," and that in no way did the red man deserve to be treated like a human being."

-In the Spirit of Crazy Horse