Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think, and act for myself--and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.
"Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt", Hinmatóowyalahtq?it in Americanist phonetic notation/Americanist orthography, popularly known as "Chief Joseph", or "Young Joseph", succeeded his father "Old Chief Joseph/Tuekakas" (Chief Joseph the Elder) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce people/Nez Perce, a Indigenous peoples of the Americas/Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
He led his band during the most tumultuous period in their contemporary history when they were Indian removal/forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley by the United States federal government and forced to move northeast, onto the significantly reduced Indian reservation/reservation in Lapwai, Idaho/Lapwai, Idaho Territory. A series of events that culminated in episodes of violence led those Nez Perce who resisted removal including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse/Palouse tribe to take flight to attempt to reach political asylum, ultimately with the Lakota people/Lakota chief Sitting Bull in Canada.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous leaders! More Chief Joseph on Wikipedia.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. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
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 - On his surrender to Gen. Howard.
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.
She was in fear for her life, ... She had been told many times if she left him, harm would come to (her relatives).
This is the way we want to interact with everyone. . . . That's always our goal. The more that we can interact on a positive level, the better, ... We are out there stressing cooperation and building positive relationships.
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
I am tired of talk that comes to nothing.
That's been resounded by many people.
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