I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULLWhat treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
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Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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God made me an Indian.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad 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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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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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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