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.

I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

Every seed is awakened, and all animal life.

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.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.