I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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?
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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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