In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
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God made me an Indian.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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