This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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.
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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 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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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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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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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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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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 am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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 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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