My friends, for many years we have been in this country; we never go to the Great Father's country and bother him about anything. It is his people who come to our country and bother us, do many bad things and teach our people to be bad�?Before you people ever crossed the ocean to come to this country, and from that time to this, you have never proposed to buy a country that was equal to this in riches. My friends, this country that you have come to is the best country that we have�?this country is mine, and I was raised in it; my forefathers lived and died in it; and I wish to remain in it.

Kangi Witka (Crow Feather)