First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
SITTING BULLIf 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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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 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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find 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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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