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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
Native
Stands
Indian
Sun
Fight
Fighting

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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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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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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 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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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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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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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 did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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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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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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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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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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