"You come here to tell us lies, but we don’t want to hear them."

"The white man has many words. But he has no truth."

"The white man draws a circle around himself and calls it a fence. We draw a circle around ourselves and call it a nation."

"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 do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers."