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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.
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
Earth
Giving
Subsist
Hoe
Plough
Disturbed
Freely
Gives
Mother
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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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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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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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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other, then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers of one father and one another, with one sky above us and one country around us, and one government for all.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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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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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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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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