A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
SITTING BULLThis is a good day to die. Follow me!
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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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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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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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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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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