I Would Have Given My Own Life

Our People Could Not Talk With These White-faced Men, But They Used Signs Which All People Understand.

The Earth Is The Mother Of All People, And All People Should Have Equal Rights Upon It.

We Do Not Want Churches Because They Will Teach Us To Quarrel About God. We Do Not Want To Learn That. We May Quarrel With Men Sometimes About Things On This Earth, But We Never Quarrel About The Great Spirit. We Do Not Want To Learn That.

Let Me Be A Free Man, Free To Travel, Free To Stop, Free To Work, Free To Trade Where I Choose, Free To Choose My Own Teachers, Free To Follow The Religion Of My Fathers, Free To Talk, Think And Act For Myself — And I Will Obey Every Law Or Submit To The Penalty.

When An Indian Fights, He Only Shoots To Kill.