Sitting Bull

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#destroys #like #nation #path #spring

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#kept #man #red #treaty #whites

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#good #great #great spirit #man #sight

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

— Sitting Bull

#chief #great #great spirit #here #his

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. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#any #away #children #dispose #feel

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. ↗

— Sitting Bull

#also #assured #buffalo #country #forever

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

— Sitting Bull

#bad #captive #ever #however #i

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

— Sitting Bull

#first #great #great spirit #had #made

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

— Sitting Bull

#eager #early #i #learn #learned

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

— Sitting Bull

#consider #father #great #holdings #i