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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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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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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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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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Good words will not give me back my children.
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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 saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
Chief Joseph
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 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 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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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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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. 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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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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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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