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.
SITTING BULLInside 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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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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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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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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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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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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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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