God made me an Indian.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

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

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.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

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

What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one.