"I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."

"I was praying to the light and to the darkness, to God and to the sun, to let me live quietly with my family. I don't know what the reason was that people should speak badly of me. I don't want to be …"

"You will never die in battle, nor will you die by gun. I will guide your arrows."

"The Great Spirit made us all. He made the white man and the red man. He gave us different ways. We should respect each other's ways."

"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. …"