The accounts of his speaking describe both the content and the effect: the way he held audiences across multiple days, the way he adapted his approach to different peoples’ histories and concerns, the way he moved people who had not been moved by other speakers.

His oratory was also multilingual in its effects, even when he spoke through interpreters.

Contemporary accounts describe him working with interpreters who were themselves skilled at capturing the force and structure of his original speech, producing versions in various Native languages that maintained the power of his arguments.

Several specific speeches attributed to him have been preserved, though the preservation of oral speeches always involves some question of accuracy and completeness.

The speech he reportedly gave to Choctaw and Chickasaw leaders in the south, calling them to join the confederacy, is one of the most frequently cited: