Let me be a free man : a documentary history of Indian resistance

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I

Conquest: 1607-1890

"Why should you destroy us?" / King Powhatan

"All our ancient customs are disregarded" / King Philp

"Where the White people are, there is no peace" / Tecumseh

"I took up the hatchet to avenge injuries" / Black Hawk

"Let me be a free man" / Chief Joseph

"Here I will die" / Yellow Wolf

"All I want is right and justice" / Red Cloud

"Our people are blindly deceived" / Sitting Bull

"We have all lost our way" / Black Kettle

"I am ready to fight" / Two Moons

"The greatest of wrongs" / Geronimo

"I can still see the butchered women and children" / Black Elk

"The terrible slaughter at Wounded Knee" / Chief Luther Standing Bear

II

Recovery: Revolt in the Twentieth Century: Early reservation years

"Confined behind fences; "Visiting Wounded Knee" / Vine Deloria, Jr

"That infamous White Man's boarding school" / Leroy B. Selam

"The Sioux had survived their greatest ordeal" / Vine Deloria

Rebirth of Indian Nationalism: "After the war" / Vine Deloria

"I seek a direction from our elders" / Lorrena Deal

"We do not want to be absorbed by a sick society" / Mad Bear Anderson

"A treaty is an eternal word" / American Indian Chicago Conference

"I fear that you wil destroy the Senecas" / George D. Heron

"Will American Indians wait?" / Clyde Warrior

"We meet in a time of darkness" / Council of the five county Cherokees

"The country should take heed" / Clyde Warrior

Indian Way: "I am sorry for you" / Fred Red Cloud

"City mind prison" / Denise Lassaw

"We have to fight back" / Wahleah Lujan

"Together, as the eagle and the sky" / North American Unity Convention

New Indian uprising: "We hold the Rock!" / Alcatraz Indians

"We have come too far to start giving land back to the White Man" / John Trudell

"We are a proud people!" / Alcatraz Indians

"Every Indian has been wounded a thousand times before" / Hank Adams

"A man cannot trespass upon his own land" / Darryl B. Wilson

"We have recaptured the property" / Herbert Powless

"When we got to Washington, the doors were closed" / Clyde Bellecourt

"An act of war" / Russell Means; "Our willingness to give our lives'; "We are the landlords of this country" / Clyde Bellecourt

"The inequities of the government's land-leasing system" / Dennis Banks

"The struggle for the continuing independence of Native Nations" / International Indian Treaty Council

People unified by their humanitiy: "We will survive" / Vine Deloria