George Crook Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“But we must not try to drive the Indians too fast in effecting these changes.”

“The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.”

“When once an Indian sees that his food is secure, he does not care what the chief or any one else says.”

“During the engagement I tried to throw a strong force through the canon, but I was obliged to use it elsewhere before it had gotten to the supposed location of the village.”

“Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.”

“If you will investigate all the Indian troubles, you will find that there is something wrong of this nature at the bottom of all of them, something relating to the supplies, or else a tardy and broken faith on the part of the general government.”

“When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.”