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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 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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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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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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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. 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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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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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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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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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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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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