I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULLIt 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.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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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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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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