Hollow Horn Bear

Hollow Horn Bear (Lakota, Matȟó Héȟloǧeča) (March 1850 – March 15, 1913) was a Brulé Lakota leader during the Indian Wars on the Great Plains of the United States.

Quotes

 * The bullets bursted [sic] at the time of the war, and we used to die with bullets, but now let us die quietly.
 * During negotiations with Crook and others, in
 * [Speaking to a crowd regarding the sale of tribal land to the US Government] My friends, you have all heard what my father-in-law says, but I do not think he is right. He believes what the white people tell him; but this is only another trick of the whites to take our land away from us, and they have played these tricks before. We do not want to trust the white people. They come to use with sweet talk, but they do not mean it. We will not sign any more papers for these white men.
 * Just a few minutes.
 * Response to Walter Mason Camp when asked how long the fighting took on Custer Hill, in
 * Mr. Lelar gave me a paper for the arrest of Crow Dog. Found defendant on a hill between White River and Rosebud Creek, where I made the arrest. Defendant had no clothes at the time, except a blanket, breechclout, and leggings and was on horseback. I did as I was ordered and took defendant to Fort Niobara.
 * On the arrest of Crow Dog, in
 * About the hides I will ask you. Those that are killed on the block. That ought to go to the poor people and the old women. The Great Father [US Government] when we went down there said he would agree to take all our hides at $3 apiece, but we don’t get that and I wish you would fix that again. I would rather get $4 for my hides. There are a good many poor people and old women that have no one to look out for them, and they ought to get those hides.
 * During negotiations with Crook and others, in
 * During negotiations with Crook and others, in

Quotes about Hollow Horn Bear

 * One of the handsomest men in his race. His profile ... reminds one of Alexander the Great, so strong and chaste it is outline ... a good type of intellectual and progressive man.
 * The biographer of Frederick Cummins, in
 * Talking to you through an interpreter is a good deal like a man trying to kiss his wife through a pane of glass.
 * A weary William Warner during negations with Hollow Horn Bear over the sale of Sioux lands, in
 * Captain Cragie U. S. A. arrived from the Rosebud agency. He says that Hollow Horn Bear is inciting the Indians. The hostiles will permit no freight to be handled until the old rate is restored. The captain looks for trouble very soon.
 * News report in
 * Hollow Horn Bear was a friend of the white people and a Christian. He had few equals among his people.
 * Father W. H. Ketcham, speaking at the funeral service in Washington D.C., in
 * Hollow Horn Bear hopes to take home about 50,000 copies of his picture on the $5 certificates.
 * On his travel to the Indian Bureau in an attempt to secure around $300,000 in payment to his tribe, in

Misattributed

 * Some day the earth will weep, she will beg for her life, she will cry with tears of blood. You will make a choice, if you will help her or let her die, and when she dies, you too will die.
 * Attributed to John Hollow Horn, 1932, in