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
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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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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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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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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God made me an Indian.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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