Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets; that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

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.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.