You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
SITTING BULLI 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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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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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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