"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has see..." — Sitting Bull

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?

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

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

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.