"If a man loses a horse, he can buy another, but he cannot buy a life."

"You come here to tell us lies, but we don't want to hear them. If we told you more, you would have paid no attention. That is all I have to say."

"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."

"I have seen the white man's civilization. It is a sickness. It is a disease."

"I would rather die an Indian than live a white man."