We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God, as the Catholics and Protestants do. We do not to learn that. We may quarrel with men about things on earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit.

The Earth and myself are of one mind.

I knew I had never sold my country, and that I had no land in Lapwai; but I did not want bloodshed. I did not want my people killed. I did not want anybody kil…

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, w…