"The white man has taken everything from us. But he cannot take our spirit."

"I cannot tell you how I felt when I learned that my mother, my wife, and my little children had been murdered."

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

"I was never again contented in our quiet home. True, I could visit my father's grave, but I had vowed vengeance upon the Mexican troopers who had wronged me, and whenever I came near his grave or saw …"

"I have seen the white man's cities. They are like anthills. Many people, but no freedom."