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.
buffalo taste sides
The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.
spring path nations
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
good-day follow-me dies
This is a good day to die. Follow me!
lonely native-american white
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
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.
father wish portions
Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.
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.
love possession
The love of possession is a desease with them.
soldier chiefs
I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.
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?
sitting spirit chiefs
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
mind disease soil
Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.
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.