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.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

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

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

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.