A disease.

>Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race – small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes [taxes] from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule. They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away; they deface her with their buildings and their refuse. That nation is like a spring freshet that overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. >- [Chief Sitting Bull](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Sitting_Bull_by_D_F_Barry_ca_1883_Dakota_Territory.jpg), a.k.a. Tatanka Yotanka, Hunkpapa Sioux, 1877 _____________________________ **Source:** Stephens, John Richard. “Alternative Views.” *Weird History 101: Tales of Intrigue, Mayhem, and Outrageous Behavior*. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006. 77. Print. _____________________________ **Further Reading:** [Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake (Sitting Bull) / Húŋkešni (“Slow”)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_Bull)