"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…"

"I am not afraid to die. I am afraid to live in chains."

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

"When all were counted, I found that my aged mother, my young wife, and my three small children were among the slain."

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