"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."

"Kinsmen, you have heard what the Mexicans have recently done without cause. You are my relatives—uncles, cousins, brothers. We are men the same as the Mexicans are—we can do to them what they have don…"

"The white man is like a coyote. He is cunning. He is sneaky. He is a thief."

"I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die ther…"

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