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Sitting Bull Biography

Sitting Bull (Lakota: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake [tˣaˈtˣə̃ka ˈi.jɔtakɛ] in Standard Lakota orthography, also nicknamed Húŋkešni [ˈhʊ̃kɛʃni] or "Slow"; c. 1831 – December 15, 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader 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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Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Crows, Fake People, Man, Men, Native American, Sight

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

Dog, Dogs, Fight, Fighting, Mean

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

Doe, Know, Make, Man, Men, White Man

I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend of the Americans. I wish him to learn the habits of the whites and to be educated as their sons are educated. I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle. This boy has given it to you, and he now wants to know how he is going to make a living.

Become, Boys, Men, Remembered, Son, Surrender

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

Chunk, Give, Giving Up, Land, Tribal, Want

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

Fool, Greater, Native American, Stupid, Think, Thinking

A cold wind blew on the prairie on the day the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

Blew, Death, Native American, People, Wind

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.

Children, Die, Games, Hunter, Hunters, Indian

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.

Accomplished, Agreement, Home, Things, Trying

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.

Buffalo, Country, Forever, Seven, Treaty, Years

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Animal, Awakened, Seed, Seeds, Totems

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

God, Indian, Justice, Made, Reservation, Reservations

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.

Back, Country, Home, People, Stay

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Man, Men, Native American, Penny, Thief, White Man

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, Fashion, Food, Houses, Moving, Nothing

Hear me, people: We have now to deal with another race- small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

Disease, Father, People, Race, Rules, Small

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.

Agency, Corral, Dog, Seen, Warrior, Wolf

God made me an Indian.

God, Indian, Made, Native American

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

Carefully, Inspirational, Loses, Man, Men, Native American

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

Eagles, Good, Men, Native American, Spirit, White

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