A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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 we must die, we die defending our rights.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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