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

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

"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."

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

"The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians."