billyjack669

billyjack669 t1_ixd074l wrote

"Gee, you boys sure look civilized."

He congratulated us and he gave us medals for looking so civilized.

We told him about how our land had been stolen and how our people were dying. When we finished he shook our hands and said, "endeavor to persevere!"

They stood us in a line: John Jumper, Chili McIntosh, Buffalo Hump, Jim Buckmark, and me — I am Lone Watie. They took our pictures. And the newspapers said, "Indians vow to endeavor to persevere."

We thought about that for a long time. "Endeavor to persevere." And when we had thought about it long enough, we declared war on the Union.

Taken from Lone Watie's (Chief Dan George) speech from The Outlaw Josey Wales

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