Begin anew and put away the wisdom of your fathers. You must lay up food and forget the hungry. When your house is built and your store-room filled, then look around for a neighbour whom you can take advantage of and seize all he has.
Red Cloud’s advice to his people, the Oglala Sioux,
on how to become wealthy like the whites, whom
they should otherwise avoid (1868).
(from R.K. Andrist, The Long Death)