Sitting Bull — "The life my people want is a life of freedom."

"Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children."

"I hate all white people. You are thieves and liars. You have taken away our land and made us outcasts."

"The Great Spirit made us all. He made the white man and the red man. He gave us different ways. We should respect each other's ways."

"I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game, I will send my children to hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his bo…"

"When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land."