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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
Twice
Two
Look
Looks
Men
Faced

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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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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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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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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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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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Big name often stands on small legs.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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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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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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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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My people were divided about surrendering.
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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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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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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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