"The white man comes to us with a smile on his face and a knife behind his back."

"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 white man is very clever. He makes many things. But he does not understand the earth. He does not understand the animals. He does not understand the sky. He does not understand the Great Spirit."

"If you think I am a fool you are a bigger fool than I am."

"I have killed, I have scalped, I have plundered, I have done all that is bad. But I have done it for my people, to defend my homeland."