We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

Words do not pay for my dead people.

Big name often stands on small legs.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.