They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
SITTING BULLIf a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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