"I have prayed to the Great Spirit. I have asked for guidance. I have asked for strength."

"The white man has a crooked tongue."

"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 …"

"Much that was done by mean white men was reported at Washington as the deeds of my people."

"We never prayed against any person, but if we had aught against any individual we ourselves took vengeance. We were taught that Usen does not care for the petty quarrels of men."