I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

Only seven years ago we made a treaty by which we were assured that the buffalo country should be left to us forever. Now they threaten to take that from us also.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.