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 BULLEach man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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