If we must die, we die defending our rights.
I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
God made me an Indian.
What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one.
What white woman, however lonely, was ever captive or insulted by me? Yet they say I am a bad Indian.
I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.