KI Six in the Tradition of Big Bear

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Big Bear was a traditional chief, chosen and followed by the Plains
Cree because of his wisdom rather than because he was acknowledged by
trader or missionary or government official for his cooperation. For
him the land, the water, the air, and the buffalo were gifts from the
Great Spirit to all mankind; everyone might use them, but in no sense
could one person own them or forbid their use to others. He saw white
civilization as humiliatingly destructive of Indian civilization, but
he resisted whites with ideas, not useless guns. He was the last of the
great chiefs to try to unite the North American peoples against
European invasion, and to that end he wanted a new treaty: one huge
reserve for all Plains Indians. If his young men had not followed
Riel's example, perhaps he could have persuaded other Plains chiefs
that his way was their only hope.