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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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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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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.
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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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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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Big name often stands on small legs.
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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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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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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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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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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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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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
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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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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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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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