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Chief Joseph Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They cannot tell me.



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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.



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