"The white people should go back to Europe, and the country should be returned to the American Indians. This is the future I would like to see for the so-called United States."

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[Black Hawk] has fought for his countrymen, the squaws and papooses, against white men, who came year after year, to cheat them and take away their lands. You know the cause of our making war. It is known to all white men. They ought to be ashamed of it.

— Black Hawk