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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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
men white-man broken
What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.
friends spring earth
Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!
broken together fists
As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.