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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
Cursed
Reputation
Dead

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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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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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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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Our chiefs are killed. . . . The little children are freezing to death. . . . My people have no blankets, no food. . . . My heart is sick and sad. . . . I will fight no more forever.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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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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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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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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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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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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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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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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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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I know that my race must change.
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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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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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