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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.

Sitting Bull

God made me an Indian.
SITTING BULL

Build God Myself One Liner
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
SITTING BULL

Desire Different Heart Himself Planning
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULL

Man Myself Remember Surrender Weapon
If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children’s mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.
SITTING BULL

Agreement Children Food Ourselves People White
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
SITTING BULL

Side Taste
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 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
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
SITTING BULL

Death Ourselves Protection Right
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.
SITTING BULL

Battle Believe Death Goodness Injury Kill Man Myself White
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
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULL

Destroy Nation Path Spring
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
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULL

Day Death Goodness Myself
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.
SITTING BULL

Control Death Greatness Man Necessary Ourselves Protection Right White
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
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULL

Himself Man 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
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
SITTING BULL

Earth Health Heart Mom Nature
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.
SITTING BULL

Build Earth Herself Mom Nature Ourselves
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Himself Man See
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
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
SITTING BULL

Goodness Greatness Man Spirit
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
SITTING BULL

Answer Myself Prayer Time
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
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.
SITTING BULL

Animal Mystery Ourselves Power Right
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?
SITTING BULL

Battle Boy Man Ourselves Rise Sun Warrior World

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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