"The white men are coming like a wave. They cover the land. They are like grasshoppers. They eat everything."

"I have heard the white man say that we are savages. But who are the savages? Those who steal land, or those who defend it?"

"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place. He put in your heart certain wishes and plans, and in my heart he put other and different desires. It …"

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

"They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it."