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Chief Joseph

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Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.


— Chief Joseph


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Some of you think an Indian is like a wild animal. This is a great mistake.


— Chief Joseph


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The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.


— Chief Joseph


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War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.


— Chief Joseph


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We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river.


— Chief Joseph


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We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end.


— Chief Joseph


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My people were divided about surrendering.


— 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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