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.
I admit I have forgotten much of the history I learned in school 50 years ago, but is he wearing a Crucifix?
ReplyDeleteJeremiah Johnson: "Christian Indians?"
DeleteDe Gue: "Lots of them."
I was curious as well, and found this nugget in the groupbrain.
Deletehttps://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=AM011
I reconize him. It's chief One Feather.
ReplyDelete"pipestone"; I forget the location but IIRC "no aggression" was observed to allow unhindered use by all.
ReplyDeletePipestone Minnesota.
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