When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to 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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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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