God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
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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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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 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.
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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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It does not take many words to tell the truth.
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What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
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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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They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
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It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
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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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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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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
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