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.
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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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