"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It …"

"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."

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

"The white men are coming like a wave. They cover the land. They are like grasshoppers. They eat everything."

"The life my people want is a life of freedom."