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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

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Sitting Bull
Age: 59 †
Born: 1831
Born: January 1
Died: 1890
Died: December 15
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Tatanka Iyotanka
Sitting Buffalo Bull
Chief Sitting Bull
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Nothing
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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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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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This nation is like a spring freshet it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
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I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
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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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Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
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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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He put in your heart certain wishes and plans in my heart he put other different desires.
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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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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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Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
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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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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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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 treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? 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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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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Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.
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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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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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