I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULLWhat treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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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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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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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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