As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULLAs individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULLIt 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.
SITTING BULLThere 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.
SITTING BULLWhat white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULLI know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULLI am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULLStrangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULLWhen 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?
SITTING BULLThe meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULLThe 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.
SITTING BULLWhat treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULLIt does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULLHealthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULL