He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULLWhat white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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