You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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.

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.

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.

They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

God made me an Indian.

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.