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 body becomes weak.
— Sitting Bull Modern

Lakota Sioux chief

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Context

Rejecting reservation life

Date / Period

1870s

Category

Controversial

Source

https://www.nps.gov/libi/learn/historyculture/sitting-bull.htm

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