Sioux Quotes

16 quotes by 12 authors

• I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them. — Buffalo Bill
• The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose… — Buffalo Bill
• When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle.… — Sitting Bull
• Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wicked for me because my skin is red? Because I am Sioux? Because I… — Sitting Bull
• [The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all… — Aaron Huey
• Those 3,000 jobs in Sioux Falls, based on our population back then in Sioux Falls, would have taken 300,000 jobs in New York City to… — Bill Janklow
• We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the… — John Fire Lame Deer
• Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He… — Vine Deloria, Jr.
• A boy can see the smoke rising from Sioux villages under the shadow of the Albert memorial. — Baden Powell de Aquino
• If a theology student in lowa should get up at a PTA luncheon in Sioux City and attack the President's military policy, my guess is… — Spiro T. Agnew
• I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack… — Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
• We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise. — Buffalo Bill
• This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian… — Marc Forgione
• I differ materially from Capt. Lewis, in my account of the numbers, manners, and morals of the Sioux. — Zebulon Pike
• What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with… — Sitting Bull
• Whose voice was first sounded on this land? The voice of the red people who had but bows and arrows. . . .What has been… — Dee Brown

Who Wrote These Sioux Quotes

12 authors contributed a total of 16 Sioux Quotes as follows:

• 3 Sioux Quotes by Buffalo Bill
• 3 Sioux Quotes by Sitting Bull
• 1 Sioux Quote by Spiro T. Agnew
• 1 Sioux Quote by Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
• 1 Sioux Quote by Marc Forgione
• 1 Sioux Quote by Zebulon Pike
• 1 Sioux Quote by Dee Brown
• 1 Sioux Quote by Aaron Huey
• 1 Sioux Quote by Bill Janklow
• 1 Sioux Quote by John Fire Lame Deer
• 1 Sioux Quote by Vine Deloria, Jr.
• 1 Sioux Quote by Baden Powell de Aquino