Sioux Quotes

I had many enemies among the Sioux; I would be running considerable risk in meeting them.

We had avoided discovery by the Sioux scouts, and we were confident of giving them a complete surprise.

I remember watching the Sex Pistols on TV when I came home from school - I think it was Johnny Rotten and Siouxsie Sioux from the Banshees - and they started swearing and the guy interviewing them got fired for provoking them. It was a wonderful time. It was like saying, `Ugly is beautiful, everything you taught us is wrong.`

Really, Harrisburg and Sioux Falls Christian are solid teams, and so is Dell Rapids.

It has to do with some of the scare tactics being used by members of the American Postal Workers Union locally in Sioux City. They should know better. In fact, they do know better.

(DES MOINES, Iowa -- Plans for a live debate on the eve of Saturday`s Iowa straw poll have been canceled after only three candidates -- former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, commentator Pat Buchanan and Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah -- agreed to participate. WOI-TV agreed to hold the debate only if six candidates signed on. It was also to be carried by KCAU-TV in Sioux City and WHBF-TV in the Quad Cities.) Obviously, we`re very disappointed given the fact that many of these candidates in their appearances throughout the state in recent times have stated that there ought to be forums, there ought to be debates for the candidates to air their views, ... When push came to shove and we presented a forum ... many of the candidates balked or simply didn`t respond.

I can remember the kids in grade school and talking about this great big store that was coming. It sounded like Treasure Island. All the kids were excited because we`d never seen anything like that in Sioux Falls.

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?

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 was born where my father lived? Because I would die for my people and my country?

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 equal it at Citibank.

We could go anywhere we needed to go. I grew up in Knoxville on the half-miles and Sioux Falls on the quarter-miles and I love these quarter-miles as well as the half-miles, but when you`ve got a car working like this it`s like, `Holy cow it`s fun to race.`

Through a program with Community Support services, they place around 50 homeless into apartments every year. Shesler Hall houses about 40 per year and Henry Hall just opened. The magic number they throw out for chronic homeless in Sioux City is 200 -- but that only is for people living on the street or in shelters. That doesn`t count people doubling up.