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.
SITTING BULLI 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find 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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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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 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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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