"I have been told that you have come to buy my land. I do not wish to sell my land. I have never sold my land. I have no land to sell."

"If the Great Spirit had intended us to live in houses, he would have made us with roots."

"The white men are coming like a wave. They cover the land. They are like grasshoppers. They eat everything."

"The white man has a tongue of forked lightning."

"The love of possessions is a disease with them."