“I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.… I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit has chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.”

— Sitting Bull

Testimony to the Dawes Commission (22 August 1883)

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Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man 1831–1890

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