"When a man is in the right, he need not be ashamed."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die ther…"

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."

"So many of our people died that I consented to let one of my wives go to the Mescalero Agency in New Mexico to live. This separation is according to our custom equivalent to what the white people call…"

"There are very few of my men left now. They have done some bad things but I want them all rubbed out now and let us never speak of them again."