Gold has some uses, but the utility value is far less than the monetary value. The reason for this is a sort of religious idolization. >When I was older, I le

Gold has some uses, but the utility value is far less than the monetary value. The reason for this is a sort of religious idolization. >When I was older, I learned what the fighting was about that winter and the next summer. Up on the Madison Fork the Wasichus had found much of the yellow metal that they worship and that makes them crazy, and they wanted to have a road up through our country to the place where the yellow metal was...Our people knew there was yellow metal in little chunks up there; but they did not bother with it, because it was not good for anything. -Black Elk