"The soldiers told us to plant corn and wheat, but before it was ripe, they took it all away."

"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 praying to the light and to the darkness, to God and to the sun, to let me live quietly with my family. I don't know what the reason was that people should speak badly of me. I don't want to be …"

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

"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."