It does not take many words to tell the truth. - Sitting Bull

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It does not take many words to tell the truth.

Sitting Bull

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About Sitting Bull

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.

Also Known As

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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Additional quotes by Sitting Bull

I never committed any depredations in the white man's country. I never made the white man's heart bleed. The white man came on to my land and followed me. The white men made me fight for my hunting grounds. The white man made me kill him or he would kill my friends, my women, and my children.

I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon … shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.… I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit has chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.