Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULLA cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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God made me an Indian.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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