"Who is the White Nantan to think he can pit his power against that of Usen?"

"I was praying to the light and to the darkness, to God and to the sun, to let me live quietly with my family. I don't know what the reason was that people should speak badly of me. I don't want to be …"

"General Crook said to me, 'Why did you leave the reservation?' I said: 'You told me that I might live in the reservation the same as white people lived. One year I raised a crop of corn, and gathered …"

"If I am killed no one need mourn for me. My people have all been killed in that country, and I, too, will die if need be."

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