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The tribe has been robbed of thousands of dollars' worth of property, and the government shows no disposition to return what belongs to them.

— Susette La Flesche The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

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A struggle for existence is not a decent living. A man or woman or child may die of starvation in a city teeming with plenty. Only human life is concerned.

The people who were once owners of this soil ask you for their liberty, and law is liberty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

So many seem to think that Indians fight because they delight in being savage and are bloodthirsty.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

It seems to us sometimes that the government treats us with less consideration than it does even the dogs.

The Plight of the Ponca Indians (1879)

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