Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULLHe put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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 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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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 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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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