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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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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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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 believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts 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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The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.
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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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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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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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My people were divided about surrendering.
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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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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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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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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 know that my race must change.
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