Indian Cry and the Buffalo

NATIVE AMERICANS / QUOTES

"What shall we do?" said a young Sioux warrior to an American officer on the Upper Missouri some fifteen years ago. "What shall we do? the buffalo is our only friend. When he goes all is over with the Dacotahs. I speak thus to you because like me you are a Brave.

quote from The Indian Sign Language / author = Captain William Philo Clark / 1885 

next from The Wild North Land / author = Sir William Francis Butler / 1873  

House, boat, food, bed, and covering, every want from infancy to age, and after life itself had passed, wrapt in his buffalo robe the red man waited for the dawn.

the buffalo was their best friend

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