Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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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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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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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.
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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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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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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