Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull
Sitting Bullwas a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people during years of resistance to United States government policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement...
ProfessionStatesman
country home justice
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.
native-american wind people
A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.
prayer long doe
What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?
native-american heart wish
He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.
country fashion moving
The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.
country native-american sitting
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.
lying want attention
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.
dog warrior agency
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.
native-american men rights
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.
native-american men white-man
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.
native-american thinking fool
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
children native-american men
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?
native-american men looks
If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.
spring path nations
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.