What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULLBehold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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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