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.
SITTING BULLThey want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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