Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

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.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

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.

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