Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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If 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.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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