Quotes from Sitting Bull

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

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.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

God made me an Indian.

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

This is a good day to die. Follow me!

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.

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

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

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

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.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

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?

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

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