A biography for Sitting Bullhasn’t been written yet.
“God made me an Indian.”
“What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.”
“Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.”
“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”
“Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.”
“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.”
“You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.”
“What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.”
“Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.”
“Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.”
“This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.”
“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.”
“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.”
“I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.”
“Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.”