They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
SITTING BULLThey 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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God made me an Indian.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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