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 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.

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

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

The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.

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.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.