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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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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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Big name often stands on small legs.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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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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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.
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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.
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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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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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