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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
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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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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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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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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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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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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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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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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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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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 believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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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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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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Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.
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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.
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