"The white man has many books. But he does not know the wisdom of the earth."

"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…"

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

"I cannot think that we are useless. But we are not as useful as we might be."

"This is the fourth time I have surrendered."