Top 25 Quotes by Sitting Bull of 60 - Page 3

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.

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

Home, Agreement, Trying

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

Sitting Bull

Firsts, Kill Me, Possession

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

Country, Native American, Sitting

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

Sitting Bull

Sitting, Spirit, Chiefs

Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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

Sitting Bull

Native American, Heart, Wish

"God Is Red: A Native View of Religion". Book by Vine Deloria, Jr., 1972.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

Sitting Bull

Soldier, Chiefs

"The Lance and the Shield" by Robert M. Utley, New York: Henry Holt and Co., (p. 190), 1993.

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

Sitting Bull

Lonely, Native American, White

Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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

Sitting Bull

Father, Wish, Portions

Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”

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.

Sitting Bull

Believe, Men, White Man

Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”