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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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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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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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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 would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
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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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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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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.
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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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Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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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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Good words will not give me back my children.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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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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We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.
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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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