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.
SITTING BULLOnly 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.
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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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 am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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