We Do Not Want Riches, We Want

We Do Not Want Riches, We Want Peace And Love.

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.

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.

Even If You Live Forty Or Fifty Years In This World, And Then Die, You Cannot Take All Your Goods With You.

We Were Told That They Wished Merely To Pass Through Our Country. . . To Seek For Gold In The Far West . . . Yet Before The Ashes Of The Council Are Cold, The Great Father Is Building His Forts Among Us. . . . His Presence Here Is . . . An Insult To The Spirits Of Our Ancestors. Are We Then To Give Up Their Sacred Graves To Be Allowed For Corn?