I want the white people to understand my people.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

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

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

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.