- Little Crow: Your government gives the Indians land no one else wants. If it were good land, they would keep it.
- Charles Ingalls: They may be ignorant savages, MacGregor, but they did manage to give you the slip, didn't they?
- Laura Ingalls: When can I play with the little girl, Pa?
- Charles Ingalls: I'm afraid you can't, at least, not outside.
- Mary Ingalls: Who'd want to? I mean they're all nothin' but heathens!
- Charles Ingalls: Mary, they may not read the same Bible we do, or worship God in the same way, but they are His children too.