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.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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