Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.
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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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.
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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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You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
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What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
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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 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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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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First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
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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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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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