"The love of possessions is a disease in them. These people have made many rules that the rich may break, but the poor…"

"You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention.…"

"I hardly sustain myself beneath the weight of white men's blood that I have shed. The whites provoked the war; their …"

"I have killed, robbed, and injured too many white men to believe in a good peace. They are medicine, and I would even…"

"Look at me, see if I am poor, or my people either. The whites may get me at last, as you say, but I will have good ti…"

"I am nothing, neither a chief nor a soldier."

"This is a good day to die. Follow me!"

"I will remain what I am until I die, a hunter, and when there are no buffalo or other game I will send my children to…"

"I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.… I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit h…"

"Because 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 pl…"