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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.

Sitting Bull

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?
SITTING BULL

Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See White
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.
SITTING BULL

Build Earth Herself Mom Nature Ourselves
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
SITTING BULL

Bad Insult Lonely Myself White Woman
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULL

Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULL

Man Myself Remember Surrender Weapon
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULL

Animal Life Seed
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.
SITTING BULL

Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULL

Build God Identity Myself
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
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 BULL

Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
SITTING BULL

Man Money Myself Theft White
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
SITTING BULL

Break Easy Fingers Strong Togetherness
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?
SITTING BULL

Battle Boy Man Ourselves Rise Sun Warrior World
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Himself Man See
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.
SITTING BULL

Accomplishment Agreement Fulfill Goodness Home Purpose Sound

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