The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world..

You whites make all the ammunition..

The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. ….

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are ….

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write..

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man..

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the….

When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nati….

Even if you live forty or fifty years in this world, and then die, you cannot take all your goods with you..

I hope the Great Heavenly Father, who will look down upon us, will give all the tribes his blessing, that we may go forth in peace, and live in peace….

We do not want riches, we want peace and love..