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 BULLIn my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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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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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 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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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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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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God made me an Indian.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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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?
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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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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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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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