In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would eventually die a lingering death. I had rather die on the field of battle. Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good times till then. You are fools to make yourselves slaves to a piece of fat bacon, some hard-tack, and a little sugar and coffee.

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.

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

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.

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.