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

"The white man is very clever. He makes many things. But he does not understand the earth. He does not understand the animals. He does not understand the sky. He does not understand the Great Spirit."

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."

"I was born on the prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there…"

"The white man’s religion is written on stone so he can’t change it, but ours is written in our hearts."

"What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. What treaty that the white man ever made with us have they kept? Not one."