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Chief Joseph

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I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.


— Chief Joseph


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I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.


— Chief Joseph


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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.


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I want the white people to understand my people.


— Chief Joseph


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I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.


— Chief Joseph


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If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.


— Chief Joseph


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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.


— Chief Joseph


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My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.


— Chief Joseph


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My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.


— Chief Joseph


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


— 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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