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.

If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart he put other different desires.

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

Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.

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.