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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country years forever
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.
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.
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.
country father native-american
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?
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
life minds
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
earth embrace received results shall
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.
soldier chiefs
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
firsts kill-me possession
First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.
lonely native-american white
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
sitting spirit chiefs
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
buffalo taste sides
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
father wish portions
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.