:07:27
"Itwas hard to know how to feel,
:07:30
"I'd never been in a battle like this one,
:07:32
"There was no dark political objective,
:07:35
"This was not a fight for territory or riches
or to make men free,
:07:39
"It was fought to preserve the food stores
that would see us through the winter,
:07:43
"To protect the lives of women and children
and loved ones only a few feet away,
:07:47
"Stone Calf was a great loss,
but even the old men could not remember,,,
:07:51
",,,such a one-sided victory,
:07:53
"And I gradually began
to look at it in a new way,
:07:56
"I felt a pride I'd never felt before,
:07:59
"I'd never really known who John Dunbar was,
:08:02
"Perhaps the name itself had no meaning,
:08:04
"But as I heard my Sioux name
being called over and over,,,
:08:07
",,,I knew for the first time who I really was, "