Quotes by Sitting Bull

About Sitting Bull:

Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota holy man who led his people as a tribal chief 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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Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Sitting Bull

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

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

Sitting Bull

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

Sitting Bull

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

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Sitting Bull

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

Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.

Sitting Bull

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

Sitting Bull

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

Sitting Bull

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

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

The earth has received the embrace of the sun and we shall see the results of that love.

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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

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Sitting Bull

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

Author Bio

  • NameSitting Bull
  • DescriptionHunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
  • Born1831
  • DiedDecember 15, 1890
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionCondottiero