"I was living peaceably and well, but I did not leave on my own accord. Had I left it would have been right to blame me; but as it is, blame those men who started this talk about me."

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

"If I am killed no one need mourn for me. My people have all been killed in that country, and I, too, will die if need be."

"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."

"I want this peace to be legal and good. Whenever I meet you I talk good to you, and you to me, and peace is soon established; but when you go to the reservation you put agents and interpreters over us…"