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.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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God made me an Indian.
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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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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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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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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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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 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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