Black Elk
"I did not know how much was ended.
When I look back now from this high hill of my old age,
I can still see the butchered women and
children lying heaped and scattered all
along the crooked gulch as plain as
I saw them with eyes still young.
And I can see that something else died there
in the bloody mud and was buried in the blizzard.
A people's dream died there. it was a beautiful dream."
Elk Negro
"Eu não sabia o quanto havia acabado.
Quando olho para trás agora, deste alto morro da minha velhice,
Ainda consigo ver as mulheres e
crianças massacradas, deitadas em montes e espalhadas por toda
a garganta tortuosa, tão claras quanto
as vi com olhos ainda jovens.
E posso ver que algo mais morreu ali
na lama ensanguentada e foi enterrado na nevasca.
O sonho de um povo morreu ali. Era um sonho lindo."