SpeechIf you tie up a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.Chief Joseph1879★ 4.4
SpeechFrom where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.Chief JosephDee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 1877★ 3.7
SpeechI am tired of fighting... I want to have time to look for my children and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.Chief Joseph1877★ 3.6
PoemBowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.Edwin Markham1899★ 3.5