If the Indians go to war without the consent of the great women, the mothers of the Sachems and Nation, The Great Spirit will not prosper them in War, but will cause them and their efforts to end in disgrace.

John Adhem
traveling among the Seneca in 1794

My heart is as a stone; there is no soft spot in it. I have takend the white man by the hand, thinking him to be a friend, but he is not a friend; government has decieved us; Washington is rotten.

Statement made by Kicking Bird-Kiowa-
after the U.S. violated the Treaty of Medicine Lodge in 1873.