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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Sitting Bull

What 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 BULL

Abuse Break Children Drink Law Man Myself See 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.
SITTING BULL

Bird Desire Different Greatness Man Myself Necessary Place Planning Spirit White
I 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 BULL

Dog Myself See Warrior Wolf Worth
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Intention Myself Sorry
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
SITTING BULL

Bad Insult Lonely Myself White Woman
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Growth Himself Home Ourselves People Stay
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
SITTING BULL

Care Himself Lose Man
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULL

Greatness Myself Spiritual Willing
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
SITTING BULL

Give Up Lost Ourselves Time
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
SITTING BULL

Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
SITTING BULL

Fools Greatness Myself Thinking
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.
SITTING BULL

Animal Children Death Himself Hunter Place Weakness
God made me an Indian.
SITTING BULL

Build God Myself One Liner

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

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