Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

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.

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.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

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