Sitting Bull Quotes - Page 2

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• Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Father, Native American

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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.

  Sitting Bull

  Lying, Attention, Want

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 196), 1993.

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• I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Spirit, Knows

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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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  Native American, Warrior, Boys

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• I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon ... shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

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  Hurt, War, Men

  "The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (pp. 79-80), 1993.

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• I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

  Sitting Bull

  Son, Boys, Men

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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.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

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• God made me an Indian.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Made, Indian

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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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  Children, Mean, Land

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• This is a good day to die. Follow me!

  Sitting Bull

  Good Day, Follow Me, Dies

  "Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west, and the Final Surrender of Sitting Bull". Book by Judson Elliott Walker, 1881.

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• What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

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  Prayer, Long, Doe

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• Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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  Animal, Totems, Seeds

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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.

  Sitting Bull

  Country, Home, People

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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  Stupid, Native American, Thinking

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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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  Im Sorry, Native American, I Am Sorry

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• Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

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  Native American, Men, Sight

  "God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.

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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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  Dog, Warrior, Agency

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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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  Mind, Disease, Soil

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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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  Children, Native American, Men

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• 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.

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  Country, Years, Forever

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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• What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.

  Sitting Bull

  Men, Broken, Red Lipstick

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• This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

  Sitting Bull

  Spring, Path, Nations

  Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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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.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

  "God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.

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• Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

  Sitting Bull

  Native American, Men, White Man

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• The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

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  Meat, Borders, Buffalo

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