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Chief Joseph

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We ask to be recognized as men.


— Chief Joseph


#men #recognized

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.


— Chief Joseph


#big #carried #could #damaged #guns

We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.


— Chief Joseph


#could #country #gave #let us #man

When an Indian fights, he only shoots to kill.


— Chief Joseph


#indian #kill #only #shoots

When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.


— Chief Joseph


#heart #hurt #killing #men #young

Words do not pay for my dead people.


— Chief Joseph


#dead people #pay #people #words

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.


— Chief Joseph


#could #found #gold #had #land

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.


— Chief Joseph


#collect #days #general #give #go

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.


— Chief Joseph


#did #i #killed #people #want

I know that my race must change.


— Chief Joseph


#i #know #must #race






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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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