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.

Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown people.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

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

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

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