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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
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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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
Chief Joseph
We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets that hereafter he will give every man a spirit-home according to his deserts: if he has been a good man, he will have a good home if he has been a bad man, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.
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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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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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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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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Chief Joseph
Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.
Chief Joseph
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
Chief Joseph
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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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.
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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
Chief Joseph
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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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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