Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

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.

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

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

As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.