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I am a great chief among my people. If you kill me, it will be like a spark on the prairie. It will make a big fire - a terrible fire!

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A long time ago this land belonged to our fathers, but when I go up the river I see a camp of soldiers, and they are cutting my wood down or killing my buffalo. I don't like that; when I see it my heart feels like bursting with sorrow.

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