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.
SITTING BULLThey want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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 a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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