Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee2007

Henry Dawes:
We cannot allow a return to incivility.

Charles Eastman:
Incivility? And what has civility earned them, might I ask? Trained nurses? Even one hospital?

Henry Dawes:
All things the Sioux will provide for themselves, Charles, once this plan has passed. As you yourself agreed - they must adapt.

Charles Eastman:
Must they adapt, sir, to the point of their own extermination?

Henry Dawes:
Extermination? I suppose you say we've exterminated your Indian heritage rather than provided to you the benefits of an entire civilization?

Charles Eastman:
Senator, please sit. Sir, if every individual were taken personally under your care, as was my good fortune, I admit, the outcome might be what you seek. But I am not the example you held up to The Friends of the Indian. I am the example of nothing. I simply do not see how placing each Indian man on a desolate, 160-acre parcel of land is going to lead his children to medical school.

Henry Dawes:
It will, in time. But first, this must pass. Or I guarantee you, destitution is all the Sioux will ever know. I have many opponents, Charles, in the press, in Congress...

Charles Eastman:
You have an opponent before you, sir.