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 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.

What does it matter how long I pray, so long as my prayers are answered?

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

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

It does not take many words to tell the truth

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