Sitting Bull White Quotations

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.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.