 “Hear ye, Dakotas!” he exclaimed.“When the Great Father at Washington sent us his chief soldier [General Harney] to ask for a path through our hunting grounds, a way for his iron road to the mountains and the western sea, we were told that they wished merely to pass through our country, not to tarry among us, but to seek for gold in the far west.Our old chiefs thought to show their friendship and good will, when they allowed this dangerous snake in our midst.