God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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What 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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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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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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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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