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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
Toughest
Fur
Finest
Cover
Meat
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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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I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.
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I know that my race must change.
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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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I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.
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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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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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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 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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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises. There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk. It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
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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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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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My people were divided about surrendering.
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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