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...
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fake-people native-american men
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
mother native-american environmental
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.
hurt war men
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.
men white-man doe
The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.
love possession
The love of possession is a desease with them.
good-day follow-me dies
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
men wish lasts
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
native-american animal land
It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
mother heart feet
Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.
children games hunters
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 mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.
catholic different baptists
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?
native-american heart men
If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
native-american rights india
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
doe telling-the-truth
It does not take many words to tell the truth