Who is Chief Joseph
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), 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 (Chief Joseph the Elder) in the early 1870s.Chief Joseph led his band of Nez Perce during the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory. A series of violent encounters ...
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- We gave up some of our country to the white men, thinking that then we could have peace. We were mistaken. The white man would not let us alone.
- I know that my race must change.
- I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
- My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
- It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.
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