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.
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.
SITTING BULLFirst 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.
SITTING BULLYou 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.
SITTING BULLIf we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULLI am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
SITTING BULLThe white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLIf a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULLThis nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULLI 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 BULLIn my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULLInside 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.
SITTING BULLAs individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULLYou think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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