"We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless."

"I have killed many; I have scalped many. I have captured women and children. I have done all that is bad. But I did it to defend my people."

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

"Often when I was alone in the mountains, I drank from the springs and I knew the animals and they knew me."

"So many of our people died that I consented to let one of my wives go to the Mescalero Agency in New Mexico to live. This separation is according to our custom equivalent to what the white people call…"