"There are very few of my men left now. They have done some bad things but I want them all rubbed out now and let us never speak of them again."

"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes. I was living peaceably when people began to speak bad of me. Now I can eat well, sleep well and be glad. …"

"I have killed many; I have scalped many. I have captured women and children. I have done all that is bad. But I did it to defend my people."

"I was born on the prairies 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 ther…"

"I think I am a good man, but in the papers all over the world they say I am a bad man; but it is a bad thing to say so about me. I never do wrong without a cause."