"This is the fourth time I have surrendered."

"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 …"

"The white men are liars. They promised us peace, but they brought war."

"We are vanishing from the earth, yet I cannot think we are useless."

"I think that my people are now capable of living in accordance with the laws of the United States, and we would, of course, like to have the liberty to return to that land which is ours by divine righ…"