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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

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
Sun
Fight
Fighting
Native
Stands
Indian

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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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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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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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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.
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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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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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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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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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We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.
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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 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.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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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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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
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