I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.
SITTING BULLHealthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
More Sitting Bull Quotes
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I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.
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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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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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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 was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
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God made me an Indian.
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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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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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Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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They 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.
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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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