I know Great Spirit is looking down upon me from above, and will hear what I say.

They claim this mother of ours, the Earth, for their own use, and fence their neighbors away from her, and deface her with their buildings and their refuse.

First kill me before you take possession of my Fatherland.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?

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