We ask to be recognized as men.

I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all sprung from a woman, although we are unlike in many things. We can not be made over again. You are as you were made, and as you were made you can remain. We are just as we were made by the Great Spirit, and you can not change us ; then why should children of one mother and one father quarrel ? — why should one try to cheat the other ? I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.

We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

All people should be treated the same way on earth.