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

Good words will not give me back my children.

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

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

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 will speak with a straight tongue.