They have had some friends who have done them
justice, yet as a part of all systems of justice whenever
it is meted to the poor Indian, it comes invariably
too late, or is administered at an ineffectual
distance, and that too when his enemies are continually
about him, and effectually applying the
means of his destruction.
George Catlin,
American frontier writer and artist,
1841, thirty-eight years before
the Standing Bear case