I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULLI am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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This is a good day to die. Follow me!
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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