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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.
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
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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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The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
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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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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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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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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
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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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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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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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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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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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Look twice at a two-faced man.
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My people were divided about surrendering.
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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 damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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The Indian race is waiting and praying.
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I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.
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