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 BULLThe meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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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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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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God made me an Indian.
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Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.
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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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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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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