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About Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph was a 19th-century American native american leader. Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father Tuekakas in the early 1870s. Read more on Wikipedia →

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“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.”
— 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
Friends Good Path

“The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.”
— Chief Joseph
Mother People Earth

“It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.”
— Chief Joseph
Heart Words Remember

“Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.”
— Chief Joseph
Law Men Treat

“Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.”
— Chief Joseph
Work Man Me
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