Words do not pay for my dead people.

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same