He Put In Your Heart Certain Wishes

In My Early Days, I Was Eager To Learn And To Do Things, And Therefore I Learned Quickly.

As Individual Fingers We Can Easily Be Broken, But All Together We Make A Mighty Fist.

I Want To Tell You That If The Great Spirit Had Chosen Anyone To Be The Chief Of This Country, It Is Myself.

I Do Not Wish To Be Shut Up In A Corral. All Agency Indians I Have Seen Are Worthless. They Are Neither Red Warriors Nor White Farmers. They Are Neither Wolf Nor Dog.

Therefore, I Do Not Wish To Consider Any Proposition To Cede Any Portion Of Our Tribal Holdings To The Great Father.