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? Sitting Bull More Quotes by Sitting Bull More Quotes From Sitting Bull Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. Sitting Bull soil disease mind In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. Sitting Bull 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. Sitting Bull home country people What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. Sitting Bull red-lipstick broken men 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. Sitting Bull white-man native-american men Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. Sitting Bull white-man native-american men What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken? Sitting Bull native-american men children What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered? Sitting Bull prayer doe long There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. Sitting Bull agreement home trying I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself. Sitting Bull sitting native-american country The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border. Sitting Bull buffalo borders meat I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. Sitting Bull chiefs sitting spirit I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Sitting Bull white-man men believe He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires. Sitting Bull wish heart native-american First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland. Sitting Bull kill-me possession firsts What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian. Sitting Bull lonely white native-american Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. Sitting Bull portions wish father I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. Sitting Bull white-man men believe I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier. Sitting Bull chiefs soldier 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. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country Sitting Bull
