>universally recognized The value of gold is not universally recognized, and is inflated more from idolization than by its practical uses. >When I was older,

>universally recognized The value of gold is not universally recognized, and is inflated more from idolization than by its practical uses. >When I was older, I learned what the fighting was about that winter and the next summer. Up on the Madison Fork the Wasichus (white people) 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 Speaks