"I was born on the prairie where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there…"

"It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

"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."

"The Great Spirit made us all. He made the white man and the red man. He gave us different ways. We should respect each other's ways."

"When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land."