An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.

The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.