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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 damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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Good words will not give me back my children.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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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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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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Finest fur may cover toughest meat.
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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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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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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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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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I know that my race must change.
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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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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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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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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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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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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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