It is only when the hearts of the Women are in the mud, that the People are destroyed.
Dull Knife
We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.
dead head
You may kill me here; but you cannot make me go back.
kill
There we found a Cheyenne cannot live. So we came home. Better it was, we thought, to die fighting than to perish of sickness.
home live thought sickness fighting found die
If our women are willing to die with us, who is there to say no?
women die
women people hearts
I would rather die in freedom on my way back home than starve to death here.
death home die freedom
I have lived my life. I am ready.
life ready
All we ask is to be allowed to live, and live in peace. We bowed to the will of the Great Father and went south.
peace live south father great
We cannot stay another year; we want to go now, before another year has passed, we may all be dead, and there will be none of us left to travel north.
travel dead left
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