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.
Thursday, April 9, 2026
Big Knife. Chippewa/Cree. Rocky Boy Reservation. Montana. 1901. He looks tired.
You would be too if you were the big knife.
ReplyDeleteFancy duds.
ReplyDeleteHis buckskins are sitting on the chair beside him.
DeleteHe's most likely tired of the white man's broken promises.
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