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The Indian race is waiting and praying.

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
Racism
Indian
Praying
Waiting
Race

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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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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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I know that my race must change.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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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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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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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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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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My people were divided about surrendering.
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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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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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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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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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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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