I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULL
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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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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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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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 have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.
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