Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself — and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.

Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.

We ask to be recognized as men.

The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.