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

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

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

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.

There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them.

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

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.