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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

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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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Grizzlies
Deer
Bear
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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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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Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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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 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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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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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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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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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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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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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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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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