Photography by David F. Barry 1885
coated card bookmark 150 x 50 mm
produced by Indigena Fine Art Publishers, Ltd. in 2001
Famed warrior, medicine man and military leader of the
Hunkpapa Indians, under whom the Lakota tribes united
in their struggle for survival on the northern plains. His
courage was legendary, he remained defiant against
American military power and contemptuous of American
promises to the end. He was killed resisting arrest on the
Standing Rock Reservation in 1890.
"What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that
we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man
ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I
was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and
set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.
Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where
are our lands? Who owns them? ....What law have I broken?
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me be-
cause my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was
born where my father lived; because I would die for my peo-
ple and my country?"
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