I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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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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God made me an Indian.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
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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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In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
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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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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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