What Does It Matter How Long I

Healthy Feet Can Feel The Very Heart Of Mother Earth.

I Hardly Sustain Myself Beneath The Weight Of White Men's Blood That I Have Shed. The Whites Provoked The War; Their Injustices, Their Indignities To Our Families, The Cruel, Unheard Of And Wholly Unprovoked Massacre At Fort Lyon ... Shook All The Veins Which Bind And Support Me. I Rose, Tomahawk In Hand, And I Have Done All The Hurt To The Whites That I Could.

Only Seven Years Ago We Made A Treaty By Which We Were Assured That The Buffalo Country Should Be Left To Us Forever. Now They Threaten To Take That From Us Also.

I Know Great Spirit Is Looking Down Upon Me From Above, And Will Hear What I Say.

Each Man Is Good In The Sight Of The Great Spirit.