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Chief Joseph

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Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.


— Chief Joseph


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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.


— Chief Joseph


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A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.


— Chief Joseph


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From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.


— Chief Joseph


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I will speak with a straight tongue.


— Chief Joseph


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The Indian race are waiting and praying.


— Chief Joseph


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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.


— Chief Joseph


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I cannot tell how much my heart suffered for my people while at Leavenworth.


— Chief Joseph


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I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.


— Chief Joseph


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The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.


— Chief Joseph


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Nez Perce War

The Nez Perce War was the name given to the U. Although he had negotiated a safe return home for his people General William Sherman forced Joseph and four hundred followers to be taken on unheated rail cars to Fort Leavenworth in eastern Kansas to be held in a prisoner of war campsite for eight months. In 1879 Chief Joseph went to Washington D.

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography popularly known as Chief Joseph or Young Joseph (March 3 1840 – September 21 1904) succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce a Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Howard. A series of events which culminated in episodes of violence led those Nez Perce who resisted removal including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe to take flight to attempt to reach political asylum ultimately with the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in Canada.

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