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. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? - Sitting Bull

When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set in their land. They sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

– Sitting Bull

Speech delivered not long before his death, 1890.