"Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?"

"When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent 10,000 men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?"

"I will not sell my heart. I will not sell my soul. I will not sell my land."

"The white man draws a circle around himself and calls it a fence. We draw a circle around ourselves and call it a nation."

"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."