The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLYou 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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 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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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 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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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.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I 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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Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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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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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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