Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
SITTING BULLI am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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.
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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 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.
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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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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.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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