I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
Good words will not give me back my children.
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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.