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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.

Sitting Bull

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULL

Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
SITTING BULL

Animal Cold Death Myself People Wind
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULL

Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
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 BULL

Build Earth Herself Mom Nature Ourselves
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?
SITTING BULL

Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See White
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL

Side Taste
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULL

Break Easy Fingers Strong Togetherness
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Growth Himself Home Ourselves People Stay
It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULL

Reality Truth Word
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULL

Man Money Myself Theft White
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULL

Care Himself Lose Man
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Intention Myself Sorry
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?
SITTING BULL

Born Country Death Father Live Love Myself People Skin Wrong
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right

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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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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