We did not think of the great open plains, the
beautiful rolling hills, and the winding streams with tangled growth, as “wild.
Only to the white man was nature a “wilderness” and only to him was the land “infested”
with “wild” animals and “savage” people. To us it was tame. Earth was bountiful
and we were surrounded with the blessings of the Great Mystery. Not until the
hairy man from the east came and with brutal frenzy heaped injustices upon us
and the families we loved was it “wild” for us. When the very animals of the
forest began fleeing from his approach, then it was that for us the “Wild West”
began.
Chief Standing Bear
of the Oglala Band of Sioux.
Before
Later
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