The money is ours, but we cannot get it. We have no food, but here are these stores, filled with food. We ask that you, the agent, make some arrangement by which we can get food from the stores, or else we may take our own way to keep ourselves from starving. A History of Minnesota - Page 234by William Watts Folwell - 1924 - 495 pagesFull view - About this book
| Solon Justus Buck, Elizabeth Hawthorn Buck - Minnesota - 1925 - 256 pages
...traders. Little Crow, the chief of the Kaposia band and leader of the Sioux, spoke up in council and said : "We have waited a long time. The money is ours,...filled with food. We ask that you, the agent, make 199 £if get food from the way to keep our'hungry, they help hey would do, and ngry, let them eat "Vom... | |
| Roy Willard Meyer - History - 1993 - 532 pages
...were made in the matter of credit by the traders, Ltttle Crow is supposed to have announced grimly: "We have waited a long time. The money is ours, but...get it. We have no food, but here are these stores, f1lled with food. We ask that you, the agent, make some arrangement by which we can get food from the... | |
| Peter H. Maguire - History - 2000 - 474 pages
...time the Indian Agem refused to distribute goods.33 Litde Crow tried to reason with Agem Galbraith: "We have waited a long time. The money is ours, but...these stores, filled with food. We ask that you, the agem, make some arrangemem by which we can get food from the stores. . . . Or else we may take our... | |
| Mary Losure - Business & Economics - 250 pages
...four traders who owned warehouses on the reservation. "We have waited a long time," Little Crow said. "The money is ours, but we cannot get it. We have no food, but here are stores, filled with food. We ask that you, the agent, make some arrangements by which we can get food... | |
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