I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more. I will tell you in my way how the Indian sees things. The white man has more words to tell you how they look to him, but it does not require many words to speak the truth.

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…

Look twice at a two-faced man.

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 …