What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.

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.

God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.