Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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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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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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If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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