First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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.
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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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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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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God made me an Indian.
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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