"We started with all our tribe to go with General Crook back to the United States, but I feared treachery and decided to remain in Mexico. We were not under any guard at this time. The United States tr…"

"The white man has many books. But he does not know the wisdom of the earth."

"I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us."

"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."

"It is better to die in freedom than to live in chains."