This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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.
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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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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 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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When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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God made me an Indian.
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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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