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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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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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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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Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
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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 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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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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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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Big name often stands on small legs.
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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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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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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 saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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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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The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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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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