What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLStrangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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 am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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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.
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