 Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows. |
| The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it. |
| What treaty that the whites have kept has the red man broken? Not one. |
| Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father. |
| He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires. |
| There are things they tell us that sound good to hear, but when they have accomplished their purpose they will go home and will not try to fulfill our agreements with them. |
| When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them? |
| It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. |
| Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them. |
| This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path. |
| If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean. |
| In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly. |
| I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief. |
| I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were. |
| God made me an Indian. |
