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.
SITTING BULLEvery seed is awakened, and all animal life.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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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 am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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