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, August 29, 2026
“‘Young’ Sitting Bull of the Oglallas, Red Cloud, Swift Bear, and Spotted Tail in Omaha, Nebraska, en route to Washington DC to meet with President Ulysses S. Grant to discuss the Black Hills”., 1875
Endeavor to persevere
ReplyDeleteSitting Bull, not a chief. he medicine man.
ReplyDeleteHeya Heya Heya
ReplyDeleteDuring the Sundance a few weeks prior to the Custer attack, Sitting Bull had visions of dead US soldiers falling into their camp…
ReplyDeleteThey sure did embrace those “European” duds. Beginning of their downfall was to accept the foreign culture. Diversity was not their friend.
ReplyDelete