Our land is everything to us. ...

Our land is everything to us. It is the only place in the world where Cheyennes talk the Cheyenne language to each other. It is the only place where Cheyennes remember the same things together. I will tell you one of the things we remember on our land. We remember our grandfathers paid for it - with their life.

~John Wooden Legs, ""Back on the War Ponies,"" 1960, quoted in We Are the People: Voices from the Other Side of American History, edited by Nathaniel May and Clint Willis~