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.
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.
SITTING BULLI was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
SITTING BULLGo 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.
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 BULLEach man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULLInside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.
SITTING BULLWhat 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?
SITTING BULLTherefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
SITTING BULLIs 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?
SITTING BULLI am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULLI 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.
SITTING BULLIn my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULLOur 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?
SITTING BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULLThe white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLIt does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULL