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.
Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (London: Vintage, 1991), 426-27.
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