They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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.
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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.
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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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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 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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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