Sitting Bull Quotes about Country

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

Sitting Bull

Country, Fashion, Moving

Quoted in James Creelman, On the Great Highway: The Wanderings and Adventures of a Special Correspondent (1901)

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.

Sitting Bull

Country, Home, People

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

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

Country, Years, Forever

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

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

Country, Father, Native American