When I think of our condition, my heart is heavy. I see men of my own race treated as outlaws and driven from country to country, or shot down like animals.
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
My people were divided about surrendering.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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.