"If you think I am a fool you are a bigger fool than I am."

"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 hunt and live on prairie mice, for where an Indian is shut up in one place his bo…"

"We are a nation of many people. We have always lived here. We have always been free. We will always be free."

"I have seen many things. I have seen the white man come. I have seen him take our land. I have seen him kill our people. I have seen him break his promises."

"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 place."