When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
SITTING BULLWhen I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my 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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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?
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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