Sitting Bull Quotes

“The farther my people keep away from the whites,” he told her, “the better I shall be satisfied. The white people are wicked and I don’t want my women to become as the white women I have seen have lived. I want you to teach my people to read and write but they must not become white people in their ways; it is too bad a life, I could not let them do it.” Prophetically he concluded, “I would rather die an Indian than live a white man.”
― Robert M. Utley, Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot

“White men like to dig in the ground for their food. My people prefer to hunt the buffalo as their fathers did. White men like to stay in one place. My people want to move their tepees here and there to the different hunting grounds. The life of white men is slavery. They are prisoners in towns or farms. 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 own fashion.”
― Robert M. Utley, Sitting Bull: The Life and Times of an American Patriot