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Sitting Bull
Statesman
Born:
1831
Died:
Dec 15
,
1890
Good
Great
Made
Man
Me
White
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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!
Sitting Bull
Love
Gardening
Spring
Earth
Sun
Embraces
See
Shall
Results
Gladly
Soon
Come
Friends
Behold
Received
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.
Sitting Bull
Environmental
Mother
Own
Earth
Claim
Neighbors
Ours
Buildings
Fence
Refuse
Use
Away
Her
I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.
Sitting Bull
Man
Surrender
Wish
Tribe
Remembered
Rifle
Last
Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?
Sitting Bull
Love
Me
People
Father
Country
Own
Skin
Wicked
Would
Born
My Own
Wrong
Red
Because
Am
Sioux
Die
Where
To Love
Lived
If we must die, we die defending our rights.
Sitting Bull
Death
Rights
Our
Must
Die
Defending
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull
Good
Man
Sight
Crows
His
Each
Each Man
Eagles
Necessary
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull
Days
Learn
Learned
Quickly
Therefore
Eager
Things
Early
Early Days
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 vast land.
Sitting Bull
Animal
Power
Too
Our
Neighbors
Ourselves
Vast
Mysterious
Through
Yield
Same
Being
Land
Inhabit
Therefore
Even
Right
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?
Sitting Bull
Today
Battle
World
Men
Rose
Our
Sun
Thousand
Ten
Boy
Sioux
Owned
Owns
Where
Sent
Them
Land
Lands
Warriors
Who
Set
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
Sitting Bull
Broken
Man
Red
Whites
Kept
Treaty
It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
Sitting Bull
Crows
Eagles
Necessary
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
Me
Broken
Man
Law
Seen
Drunk
White
Hungry
Beat
Abuse
Come
Wives
Left
Children
Who
Ever
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
Great
Me
Man
Made
First
White
Would
Spirit
Had
He
Red
Great Spirit
First Place
Am
Place
Desired
You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.
Sitting Bull
You
Fool
Think
Greater
Am
Than
I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.
Sitting Bull
Good
Sorry
Out
Supposed
Were
Very
Intentions
Your
Found
Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.
Sitting Bull
Good
Great
Man
Sight
Spirit
Great Spirit
Each
Each Man
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
Made
Country
Assured
Seven
Threaten
Only
Take
Also
Buffalo
Were
Years
Years Ago
Left
Forever
Which
Us
Should
Now
Treaty
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
Sitting Bull
Great
Will
Spirit
Great Spirit
Am
His
Chief
Here
This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.
Sitting Bull
Path
Spring
Nation
Destroys
Like
Banks
Who
Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.
Sitting Bull
Man
Free
White
Our
Footsteps
Controls
Poor
Now
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.
Sitting Bull
Man
Money
Penny
White
Thief
Say
Never
Am
His
Stole
Land
They Say
Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.
Sitting Bull
Life
Animal
Every
Seed
Animal Life
Awakened
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
Myself
Great
You
Patriotism
Country
Tell
Spirit
Had
Great Spirit
Chief
Want
Anyone
Chosen
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
Sitting Bull
Me
Woman
Lonely
White
Say
Bad
Indian
Insulted
Am
However
Captive
They Say
Ever
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