I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
SITTING BULLI 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.
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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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
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What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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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I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
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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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God made me an Indian.
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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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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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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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