"General Crook said to me, 'Why did you leave the reservation?' I said: 'You told me that I might live in the reservation the same as white people lived. One year I raised a crop of corn, and gathered …"

"I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me."

"I was told that the President of the United States had sent for me. I was glad to go."

"The sun rises and shines for a time, and then it goes down. So it is with man."

"We do not ask all of the land which the Almighty gave us in the beginning, but that we may have sufficient lands there to cultivate. What we do not need we are glad for the white men to cultivate."