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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
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Finest
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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.
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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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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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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 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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It takes few words to tell the truth.
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When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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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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Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
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The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.
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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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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
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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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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
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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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