Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULLA cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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 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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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