"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…"

"I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive."

"I don't want any man who will talk bad about me, and tell lies, to be there, because I am going to try and live well and peaceably. I want to have a good man put over me."

"My heart is good. I have never lied to my people. I have never betrayed them."