The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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 treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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.
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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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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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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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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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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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God made me an 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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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.
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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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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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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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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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