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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
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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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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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Big name often stands on small legs.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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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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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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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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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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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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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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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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