He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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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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