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US and Native American relations3 quotes
If 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 Joseph · 1879From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph · 1877I 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 Joseph · 1877American West1 quote
From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. — Chief Joseph · 1877Native American life1 quote
If 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 Joseph · 1879