A Quote by Vine Deloria Jr.

Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

Vine Deloria Jr.

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Vine Deloria Jr.
American - Author
March 26, 1933 - November 13, 2005

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