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Pretty-shield

  • The Indian never hurts anything, but the white people destroy all ... How can the spirit of the earth like the white man? That is why God will upset the world — because it is sore all over. Everywhere the white man has touched it, it is sore.

    • Pretty-shield,
    • in Frank Bird Linderman, Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows ()
  • A brave man is seldom unkind.

    • Pretty-shield,
    • in Frank Bird Linderman, Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows ()
  • Ahh, my heart fell down when I began to see dead buffalo scattered all over our beautiful country, killed and skinned, and left to rot by white men, many, many hundreds of buffalo. ... Our hearts were like stones. And yet nobody believed, even then, that the white man could kill all the buffalo. Since the beginning of things there had always been so many!

    • Pretty-shield,
    • in Frank Bird Linderman, Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows ()

Pretty-shield, Crow medicine woman

(1856 - 1944)