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Luther Standing Bear: "Hanya bagi orang kulit putih itu alam merupakan...

"Hanya bagi orang kulit putih itu alam merupakan "hutan belantara" dan hanya baginya tanah itu "dipenuhi" dengan hewan "liar" dan manusia "buas". Bagi kami itu jinak. Bumi berlimpah dan kami dikelilingi dengan berkah dari Misteri Hebat. Tidak sampai pria berambut dari timur datang dan dengan kegilaan brutal menimbun ketidakadilan pada kami dan keluarga yang kami cintai adalah "liar" bagi kami. Ketika binatang-binatang hutan mulai melarikan diri dari pendekatannya, maka bagi kami "Wild West" dimulai."

--- Luther Standing Bear

Versi Bahasa Inggris

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 that 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.