They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time.

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.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

You think I am a fool, but you are a greater fool than I am.

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

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

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.