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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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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
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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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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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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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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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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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We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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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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Big name often stands on small legs.
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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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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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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.
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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
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