Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.
From Chief Joseph
I know that my race must change.
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.
I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.
My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.
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.
Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.
We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.
General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.
War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.
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