I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when the… - Sitting Bull

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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, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.

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Sitting Bull (c. 1831 – 15 December 1890) was a Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux holy man and war chief, notable for his role in the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Little Bighorn.

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Birth Name: Jumping Badger

Native Name: Tȟatȟáŋka Íyotake

Alternative Names: Tatanka Iyotanka • Chief Sitting Bull • Sitting Buffalo Bull • Ȟoká Psíče • Húŋkešni

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It does not take many words to tell the truth.

Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

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, for w… - Sitting Bull

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