Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.