What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLWhat does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
SITTING BULLWhen 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 BULLIf 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 BULLA cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
SITTING BULLI have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
SITTING BULLBehold, 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!
SITTING BULLI 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 BULLStrangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
SITTING BULLI want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULLEvery seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULLTherefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULLIf a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULLYou think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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