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Chief Joseph

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I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.


— Chief Joseph


#native-american-wisdom #non-violence #wisdom #love

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.


— Chief Joseph


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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.


— Chief Joseph


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It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.


— Chief Joseph


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An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.


— Chief Joseph


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It does not require many words to speak the truth.


— Chief Joseph


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I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.


— Chief Joseph


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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.


— Chief Joseph


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I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.


— Chief Joseph


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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.


— 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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