We were faint with hunger and maddened by despair We held our dying children and felt their little bodies tremble as their soul went out and left only a dead weight in our hands They were not very heavy but we were faint and the dead weighed us down There was no hope on earth God seemed to have forgotten Some one had been talking of the Son of God and said He had come The people did not know They did not care They snatched at hope They screamed like crazy people to Him for mercy and caught at the promise they heard He had made Chief Red Cloud Oglala Lakota.