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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
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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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 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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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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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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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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