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

Good words will not give me back my children.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

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.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

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