But you will not by any means listen to [any] overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected. . . . Our future security will be in their inability to injure us . . . and in the terror with which the severity of the chastisement they receive will inspire [them].”

water. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Croix de Guerre but was never recommended for the Medal of Honor. In comparison, twenty of the troopers who opened fire on unarmed Lakota at Wounded Knee had received the Medal of Honor for their efforts twenty-seven years earlier.

Guidelines issued by the National Association of Realtors to their representatives in 1950 admonished them that they “should never be instrumental in introducing to a neighborhood a character of property or occupancy, members of any race or nationality, or any individual whose presence will be clearly detrimental to property values in a

There is nothing like middle age to make you feel like a teenager.

practice of sovereignty carries with it a kind of dignity—a way of relating to the self, to others, to the past, and to the future that is dimensionally distinct.

The protesters referred to themselves not as protesters but as water protectors. Theirs was a nonviolent protest

In reality, contact was varied, complex, and gradual.

The Malheur militants were acquitted largely because their takeover occurred on federal land. The water protectors were arrested because they trespassed on private land (made private by historical theft of the Great Sioux Reservation).

Adding injury to injury, the annuity payments and food promised by treaty and on which the Dakota depended were rarely delivered, or were late and of substandard quality. The government’s policy had also been to deliver the annuity payments to traders in the territory rather than directly to the Dakota. The traders would skim, falsify records, and