God made me an Indian.
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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 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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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