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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
Grizzlies
Deer
Bear
Bears
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
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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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We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.
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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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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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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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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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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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I know that my race must change.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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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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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
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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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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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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
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