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 saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

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.

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

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

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.