Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (London: Vintage, 1991), 426-27.
When Chief Sitting Bull was invited to speak at the Northern Pacific Railroad’s ceremony to mark the completion of its transcontinental railroad track in 1883, he denounced the audience by calling them “thieves” and “liars”; his speech was given a standing ovation nevertheless because the translator spoke the kinder remarks of Sitting Bull’s previously prepared text.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (London: Vintage, 1991), 426-27.
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As a lieutenant in the Army, John Ross fought alongside Andrew Jackson during the Creek War in 1814, but as Cherokee leader in the 1830s, he fought against President Jackson in an unsuccessful attempt to stop the removal of the Cherokee due to the Indian Removal Act.
Sean Wilentz, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005), 428. During the Civil War, Union General David Hunter gave an order freeing slaves in three Southern states, and he formed the first black Army regiment; President Abraham Lincoln reversed both actions.
Erik Loomis, A History of America in Ten Strikes (New York: The New Press, 2018), 37. |
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