I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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 man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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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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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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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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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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