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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
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Chief Joseph
Age: 64 †
Born: 1840
Born: March 3
Died: 1904
Died: September 21
Tribal Chief
Wallowa Valley
Joseph Buruzagia
Hin-mut-too-uah-lat-kekht
Thunder Rolling in the Mountains
Heinmot Tooyalaket
Joseph the Younger
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We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.
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I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
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We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.
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I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
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Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph
I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.
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The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
Chief Joseph
