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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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Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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Side Taste
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Goodness Greatness Man Spirit
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Animal Life Seed
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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Day Learning Myself Quick
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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Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Leadership Myself Soldier
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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Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See White
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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Born Country Death Father Live Love Myself People Skin Wrong
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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Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
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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Attention Lie Myself Pay Price Talk
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Answer Myself Prayer Time
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Destroy Nation Path Spring
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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Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Death Ourselves Protection Right
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Break Man Oneself White
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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Give Up Lost Ourselves Time
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Build God Identity Myself
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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Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
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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Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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Animal Cold Death Myself People Wind
God made me an Indian.
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Build God Myself One Liner

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