I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
SITTING BULLHealthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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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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Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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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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God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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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As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
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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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