Finest fur may cover toughest meat.

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

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.

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

I know that my race must change. We cannot hold our own with the white men as we are. We only ask an even chance to live as other men live. We ask to be recognized as men. We ask that the same law shall work alike on all men. If an Indian breaks the law, punish him by the law. If a white man breaks the law, punish him also.

I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me.

I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.