- Statesman | 1831 - December 15, 1890
They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.
Sitting Bull
TimeWantLandFirst TimeFirstUp
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
ManBrokenRedTreatyKeptWhites
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
FoolI AmThinkYouGreaterThan
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
LoveMindEnoughSoilPossessions
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
ManWhiteKnowEverythingKnowsHe
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.
GreatManI AmRedMePlace
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
ManFreeWhiteNowPoorFootsteps
God made me an Indian.
GodMeMadeIndian
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
GoodGreatManSpiritSightEach
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
PathSpringNationWhoLikeBanks
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
GoodSorryIntentionsOutYourVery
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.
CountryNowBuffaloYearsForever
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