Sitting Bull

“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”

“If we must die, we die defending our rights.”

“I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.”

“The life my people want is a life of freedom.”

“Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.”

“They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.”

“Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The traditions of our people are all that we have left.”

“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.”

“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one.”

“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 land.”

“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.”

“They claim this mother of ours, the earth, for their own and fence their neighbors away from them.”

“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!”