Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
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.