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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.

Sitting Bull

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULL

Animal Life Seed
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
SITTING BULL

Father Kill Myself Patriot Possession
It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULL

Reality Truth Word
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL

Side Taste
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULL

Himself Man White
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.
SITTING BULL

Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
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?
SITTING BULL

Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULL

Build God Identity Myself
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.
SITTING BULL

Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
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.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Greatness Man Spirit
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.
SITTING BULL

Battle Believe Death Goodness Injury Kill Man Myself White
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULL

Answer Myself Prayer Time

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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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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