The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.