Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

Hear me people: We have now to deal with another race - small and feeble when our fathers first met them, but now great and overbearing. Strangely enough they have a mind to till the soil and the love of possession is a disease with them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break but the poor may not. They take their tithes from the poor and weak to support the rich and those who rule.

If we must die, we die defending our rights.

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.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

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.