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What Ten Bears said to William T. Sherman. Ten Bears will never have a holiday.
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On Martin Luther King Day, another classic address on American equality and liberty: What Ten Bears said to William T. Sherman. Ten Bears will never have a holiday.
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The Statement Of Ten Bears To William Tecumseh Sherman, October 1867
SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 BY PATRICK NON-WHITE
143 years ago, the leaders of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes met with William Tecumseh Sherman at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas. The Comanche had dominated the American plains for hundreds of years, and had terrorized the Texans whose Confederacy Sherman had done more to crush than any other man. But this was not a meeting of equals. Sherman told the Comanche they had to give up the plains, to live on a reservation in Oklahoma: "You can no more stop this than you can stop the sun or the moon. You must submit, and do the best you can."
The Comanche were led by Ten Bears, their last great war chief save Quanah Parker. This is what Ten Bears said to Sherman:
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010 BY PATRICK NON-WHITE
143 years ago, the leaders of the Comanche and Kiowa tribes met with William Tecumseh Sherman at Medicine Lodge Creek, Kansas. The Comanche had dominated the American plains for hundreds of years, and had terrorized the Texans whose Confederacy Sherman had done more to crush than any other man. But this was not a meeting of equals. Sherman told the Comanche they had to give up the plains, to live on a reservation in Oklahoma: "You can no more stop this than you can stop the sun or the moon. You must submit, and do the best you can."
The Comanche were led by Ten Bears, their last great war chief save Quanah Parker. This is what Ten Bears said to Sherman:
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