If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our childrens mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean. – Sitting Bull
They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse. – Sitting Bull
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children. – Sitting Bull
What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief. – Sitting Bull
But on the first day came veiled spirits from all hours into his soul… a soft intoxication, which the atmosphere of nature, like that of a wine-store, communicated to him, spread itself, like an enchanted solitude around his soul. – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,