"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."

"The whites may get me at last, but I will have good times till then."

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

"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."

"I have been told that you have come to buy my land. I do not wish to sell my land. I have never sold my land. I have no land to sell."