The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

The life my people want is a life of freedom. I have seen nothing that a white man has, houses or railways or clothing or food, that is as good as the right to move in the open country and live in our fashion.

Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.