Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULLOnly 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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.
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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 know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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 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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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