Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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?
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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 white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.
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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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God made me an Indian.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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