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I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.

— Sitting Bull

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Source, in full

Recorded by a reporter after Sitting Bull's retreat to Canada after being defeated in the Black Hills War, originally published in the New York Herald on November 16, 1877. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 190.

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The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

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