“I am and always have been a friend of the Indian. I have always sympathized with him in his struggle to hold the country that was his by right of birth. But I have always held that in such a country as America the march of civilization was inevitable, and that sooner or later the men who lived in roving tribes, making no real use of the resources of the country, would be compelled to give way before the men who tilled the soil and used the lands as the Creator intended they should be used.”
— Buffalo Bill Cody, Buffalo Bill Cody: An Autobiography
Tagged: Indians, Native Americans, creator, Manifest Destiny
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