Chief Joseph Quotes About Earth

• If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Teacher   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  2065

• We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees.

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  Chief Joseph

  Native American   Dust   Tree  

  3000

• We do not want churches because they will teach us to quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about the Great Spirit. We do not want to learn that.

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  Chief Joseph

  Men  

  1544

• The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Native American   Rights  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  1795

• The earth was created by the assistance of the sun, and it should be left as it was. The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it.

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  Chief Joseph

  Country   Native American   Men  

  1949

• All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother   Running   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  2205

• Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

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  Chief Joseph

  Country   Mother   Brother  

  Lincoln Hall Speech in Washington D.C., January 14, 1879.

  4215

• All people should be treated the same way on earth.

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  Chief Joseph

  235

• The earth is our mother. She should not be disturbed by hoe or plough. We want only to subsist on what she freely gives us.

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  Chief Joseph

  Mother  

  657

• The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same

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  Chief Joseph

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