And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Saturday, March 7, 2015
Chief Goes To War. Lakota. 1898. Photo by F.A. Rinehart.
Far seeing eyes... The Lakota, a handsome people.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet that both his scalping knife and tomahawk were sharp.
ReplyDeleteA good man from any tribe will keep his scalping knife and tomahawk sharp. It's a "man test."
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