If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULLI was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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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.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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