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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Sitting Bull

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
I 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 BULL

Desire Greatness Man Myself Place Spirit White
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.
SITTING BULL

Country Fashion Freedom Goodness Life Live Man Ourselves People White
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
SITTING BULL

Day Learning Myself Quick
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
SITTING BULL

Break Man Oneself White
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.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Country Forever Threat Time
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL

Side Taste
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
SITTING BULL

Leadership Myself Soldier
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
SITTING BULL

Choice Country Greatness Myself Spiritual
Inside 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 BULL

Dog Evil Feed Fight Goodness Myself Philosophy Time
I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULL

Greatness Myself Spirit
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
It does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULL

Reality Truth Word
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULL

Day Death Goodness Myself
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?
SITTING BULL

Different Fools God Ourselves Religion
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

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

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