They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.
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We do not want riches, we want peace and love.
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I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
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The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day.
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The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.
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When I was a young man, I was poor. In a war with other nations, I was in eighty-seven fights. There I received my name and was made Chief of my nation. But now I am old and am for peace.