God made me an Indian.
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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