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 BULLGo 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 BULLThey 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 BULLInside 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.
SITTING BULLThis nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
SITTING BULLFirst kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
SITTING BULLThere 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.
SITTING BULLThe white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
SITTING BULLIt does not take many words to tell the truth.
SITTING BULLThis is a good day to die. Follow me!
SITTING BULLEach 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 BULLGod made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
SITTING BULLIf the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULLEach man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
SITTING BULLIs it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
SITTING BULLOnly 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 BULLThe 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.
SITTING BULL