www.ecec.muhsd.k12.ca.us/room103/english/01/a/unit_04/hrtburst.htm – 11k –

Also read this book “Bury my heart at Wounded Knee’ by Dee Brown

This is Satanta’s My Heart Feels Like Bursting speach.

“I love the land and the buffalo and will not part with it. I want you to understand well what I say. Write it on paper … I hear a great deal of good talk from the gentlemen whom the Great Father sends us, but they never do what they say. I don’t want any of the medicine lodges within the country. I want the children raised as I was …

“I have heard that you intend to settle us on a reservation near the mountains. I don’t want to settle. I love to roam over the prairies. There I feel free and happy, but when we settle down we grow pale and die. I have laid aside my lance, bow, and shield, and yet I feel safe in your presence. I have told you the truth. I have no little lies hid about me, but I don’t know how it is with the commissioners. Are they as clear as I am? A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers; but when I go up to the river I see camps of soldiers on its banks. These soldiers cut down my timbers; they kill my buffalo; and when I see that, my heart feels like bursting; I feel sorry. I have spoken.”