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.
SITTING BULLHealthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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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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