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All people should be treated the same way on earth.
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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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.
Chief Joseph
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.
Chief Joseph
Good words will not give me back my children.
Chief Joseph
A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.
Chief Joseph
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
Chief Joseph
I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
Chief Joseph
Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.
Chief Joseph
Look twice at a two-faced man.
Chief Joseph
Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.
Chief Joseph
I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.
Chief Joseph
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
Chief Joseph
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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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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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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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
Chief Joseph
My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
Chief Joseph
We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.
Chief Joseph
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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It does not require many words to speak the truth.
Chief Joseph
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.
Chief Joseph