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Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.
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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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 saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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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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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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Good words will not give me back my children.
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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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I will speak with a straight tongue.
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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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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
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We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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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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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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