"I don't want any man who will talk bad about me, and tell lies, to be there, because I am going to try and live well and peaceably. I want to have a good man put over me."

"The wind speaks to me. The trees speak to me. The birds speak to me. I understand them."

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

"We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless or else Usen would not have created us."

"I was warmed by the sun, rocked by the winds, and sheltered by the trees as other Indian babes."