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.
SITTING BULLGo 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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God made me an Indian.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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?
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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 wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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