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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

Sitting Bull

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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Agreement Country Forever Threat Time
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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Believe Goodness Injury Kill Man Peace Theft White
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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Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Father Kill Myself Patriot Possession
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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Care Himself Lose Man
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Animal Life Seed
I 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.
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Battle Believe Death Goodness Injury Kill Man Myself White
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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Break Man Oneself White
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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Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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Greatness Myself Spirit
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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Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
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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Give Up Lost Ourselves Time
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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Day Learning Myself Quick
Each 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.
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Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
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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Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right

You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

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