George Rogers Clark on Indians' independence (May, 1783): "They have no notion of being dependant on Either the british or americans, But would make war on both if Equally Insulted" (White, 412).

On their notion of their superiority:

We shall be Eternally Involved in a war with some nation or other of them, until we shall at last in order to save blood and treasure be Reduced to the necessity of convincing them that we are always able to crush them at pleasure, and determined to do it when Even they misbehave. . . . A greater Opportunity can never offer to Reduce them to Obedience than the present moment.