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

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

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.

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.