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 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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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 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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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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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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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?
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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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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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 we must die, we die defending our rights.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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God made me an Indian.
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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 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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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