"they [U.S. whites] never do what they say" --Satanta, Kiowa Chief, 1867

"I love this land and the buffalo and will not part with it. I want you to understand well what I say. Write it on paper…I hear a great deal of good talk from the gentlemen the Great Father sends us, but they never do what they say. I don’t want any of the medicine lodges [schools and churches] within the country. I want the children raised as I was."

~Satanta, Kiowa Chief.  From his speech at Medicine Lodge, Kansas, 1867.