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Sitting Bull

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.
SITTING BULL

Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White
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.
SITTING BULL

Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULL

Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULL

Father Greatness Hold Land Ourselves Possession
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULL

Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULL

Day Learning Myself Quick
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.
SITTING BULL

Dog Myself See Warrior Wolf Worth
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Growth Himself Home Ourselves People Stay
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULL

Himself Man White
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?
SITTING BULL

Battle Boy Man Ourselves Rise Sun Warrior World
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL

Side Taste
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULL

Greatness Myself Spirit
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Himself Man See
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULL

Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Country Forever Threat Time
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.
SITTING BULL

Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULL

Choice Country Greatness Myself Spiritual
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.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULL

Animal Life Seed
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
SITTING BULL

Give Up Lost Ourselves Time
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULL

Answer Myself Prayer Time
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
SITTING BULL

Control Freedom Man Ourselves Poor White
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
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?
SITTING BULL

Born Country Death Father Live Love Myself People Skin Wrong
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
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 BULL

Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
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.
SITTING BULL

Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White

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