Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Healthy feet can feel the very heart of Mother Earth.

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.

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.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. Now we are poor but we are free. No white man controls our footsteps. If we must die, we die defending our rights.

I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace.