Frases de Touro Sentado

Touro Sentado foi um chefe indígena da tribo dos sioux hunkpapa. Viveu entre os anos de 1831 e 1890.

Touro Sentado chegou a ser famoso por conduzir três mil e quinhentos índios sioux e cheyenne contra o Sétimo Regimento de Cavalaria Americana, que estava sob as ordens do general Custer, na batalha de Little Bighorn em 25 de junho de 1876, na qual o exército federal foi derrotado.

Perseguido pelo exército dos Estados Unidos, Touro Sentado levou os seus homens até ao Canadá, onde permaneceram até 1881. Neste ano regressou com a sua tribo aos Estados Unidos para que a sua gente se entregasse e acabasse assim a guerra. Touro Sentado não conseguiu uma porção de terras canadenses, porque a Rainha Vitória o considerava um selvagem dos Estados Unidos.

Nos anos seguintes Touro Sentado fez parte do show de Buffalo Bill.

Touro Sentado teria se sentido atraído pela Dança dos Fantasmas, grupo religioso fundado pelo suposto messias Wovoca. Segundo o profeta, que se dizia o próprio Cristo, a dança faria com que no próximo ano a terra engolisse os homens brancos das terras dos índios. O governo dos Estados Unidos viu nestas danças uma ameaça e enviou uma polícia índia para prender o chefe hunkpapa. Touro Sentado e seu filho morreram baleados na luta que se seguiu à tentativa de prisão.

Em sioux, Tatanka Iyotake significa «Búfalo Macho Sentado». O nome de Touro Sentado chegou ao português através da tradução do inglês, Sitting Bull, posto que bull, além de significar touro, utiliza-se para denominar os machos de animais similares aos bois, como os búfalos e bisontes. Wikipedia  

✵ 1831 – 15. Dezembro 1890
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Touro Sentado: Frases em inglês

“You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them.”

As recorded by reporters covering a speech made by Sitting Bull to U.S. military officers at a conference between the military and the Sioux who had retreated to Canada. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 196.
Contexto: You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say.

“I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle.”

Recorded by Charles Larpenteur at Fort Union in 1867. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 73.

“Because I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other and different desires. Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary, that eagles should be crows.”

Quoted in Vine Deloria, God Is Red: A Native View of Religion. Golden, Colo: Fulcrum Pub, 2003, cited to Virginia Armstrong, I have spoken; American history through the voices of the Indians. Chicago, Sage Books, 1971.

“The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.”

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Attributed quotes

“I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed.”

Recorded by the Jesuit priest Pierre-Jean De Smet after a council with Sitting Bull on June 19, 1868. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 79-80.
Contexto: I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their injustices, their indignities to our families, the cruel, unheard of and wholly unprovoked massacre at Fort Lyon … shook all the veins which bind and support me. I rose, tomahawk in hand, and I have done all the hurt to the whites that I could.

“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, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his body becomes weak.”

Recorded by James M. Walsh, inspector in the Northwest Territory of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, at a conference with Sitting Bull on March 23, 1879. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 206.

“I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier.”

Recorded by a reporter after Sitting Bull's retreat to Canada after being defeated in the Black Hills War, originally published in the New York Herald on November 16, 1877. Published in Utley, Robert M. The Lance and the Shield. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1993. p. 190.

“This is a good day to die. Follow me!”

Rallying cry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (25 June 1876), quoted in Campaigns of General Custer in the North-west by Judson Elliott Walker