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.

Inside of me there are two dogs. One is mean and evil and the other is good and they fight each other all the time. When asked which one wins I answer, the one I feed the most.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

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.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

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.