"We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us."

"The white man came with a book and a gun, and he took our land."

"My heart is good. I have never lied to my people. I have never betrayed them."

"I don't want any man who will talk bad about me, and tell lies, to be there, because I am going to try and live well and peaceably. I want to have a good man put over me."

"In all the battle I thought of my murdered mother, wife, and babies—of my father's grave and my vow of vengeance, and I fought with fury. Many fell by my hand, and constantly I led the advance. Many b…"