Document B: Sitting Bull’s Speech

SOURCE NOTE: Sitting Bull’s Speech at the Powder River Council, 1877. Sitting Bull fought against the USA government while leading his people. He fought in many battles against the US Army. His most famous being the Battle of Little Bighorn where the Sioux were the victors.

Hear me, my people, we have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and bossy. They have a mind to plow the soil, but their love of belongings is a disease. They claim this mother land of ours, the earth, for their own, and fence their neighbors away. They deface her with their buildings and their waste. They threaten to take the land away from us. My brothers, we shall not submit, instead we shall say to them: "First kill me before you take control of my Fatherland."