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 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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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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 am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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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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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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God made me an Indian.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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