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• I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

  Chief Joseph

  Done, Heard

  "Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States'", www.democracynow.org. December 26, 2005.

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• The Great Spirit Chief who rules above all will smile upon this land... and this time the Indian race is waiting and praying.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Race, Land

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• Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead.

  Chief Joseph

  Reputation, Cursed

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• We were like deer. They were like grizzly bear.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Grizzly Bears, Deer

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

  Chief Joseph

  Mistake, Animal, Thinking

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• 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

  Men, White Man, Land

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

  Chief Joseph

  Heart, People, My Heart

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• The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, White Man

  Documentary "The West", ("Episode 6: Fight No More Forever"), 1996.

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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

  Men, People, Ears

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• We ask only that the law shall work alike on all men.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Law, Asks

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

  Chief Joseph

  Travel, Native American, Men

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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

  Chief Joseph

  Father, Men, White Man

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• The Indian race is waiting and praying.

  Chief Joseph

  Race, Racism, Waiting

  Chief Joseph's speech in Washington, D.C. (1879), later published in Chester Anders Fee "Chief Joseph: The Biography of a Great Indian", www.pbs.org. 1936.

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• I only ask of the Government to be treated as all other men are treated. If I cannot go to my own home, let me have a home in a country where my people will not die so fast.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Home, Men

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• Words do not pay for my dead people.

  Chief Joseph

  People, Pay, Dead People

  Readings from Howard Zinn’s 'Voices of a People’s History of the United States', December 26, 2005.

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• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.

  Chief Joseph

  Native American, Men, White

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

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• A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Lawyer, Chiefs

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

  Chief Joseph

  War, Want, Ought

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• Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

  Chief Joseph

  Country, Men, White

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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

  Country, Winter, Men

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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

  War, Men, Buying

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

  Chief Joseph

  Gun, Powder, Bigs

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• It required a strong heart to stand up against such talk, but I urged my people to be quiet and not to begin a war.

  Chief Joseph

  Strong, War, Heart

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• I will speak with a straight tongue.

  Chief Joseph

  Tongue, Speak

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• I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

  Chief Joseph

  Trouble, Bloodshed, Hard

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