"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds, and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes."

"I want this peace to be legal and good. Whenever I meet you I talk good to you, and you to me, and peace is soon established; but when you go to the reservation you put agents and interpreters over us…"

"If I had been let alone I would now have been in good circumstances, but instead of that you and the Mexicans are hunting me with soldiers."

"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 …"

"I was told that the President of the United States had sent for me. I was glad to go."