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DL: What’s your opinion of the war?
BW: You know, being Native American, I can say it was all their fault. [Laughter] But I’m sure there are two sides to every story. I think if the United States government and the people who were responsible for handing out the rations and payments had done their job correctly, they probably wouldn’t have had any problems. I heard that when someone asked the person who ran the store for rations, he said “Let them eat grass.” That kind of sits the wrong way. After the attack, they found him and he had grass in his mouth. I thought “Wow! How did they know?” Somebody must have told. Something must have been going on.
I’m sure the United States, in good faith, tried its best. Who knows? Someone told me one time that he had heard of or seen a document that President Lincoln had signed calling off that hanging. But it never got here [to Minnesota] in time. I’ve never seen nor heard anything like that.
