Sitting Bull Country Quotations

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?

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.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

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.

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.