The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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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 does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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?
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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Behold, 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!
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