American indian Quote by Chief Joseph

We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came…

— Chief Joseph

I would give up everything rather than have the blood of white men upon the hands of my people.

— Chief Joseph

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the…

— Chief Joseph

Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work.

— Chief Joseph

I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in…

— Chief Joseph

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where…

— Chief Joseph

It does not take many words to speak the truth.

— Chief Joseph

“I will fight no more forever”

— Chief Joseph

I do not believe that the Great Spirit Chief gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they…

— Chief Joseph

We ask to be recognized as men.

— Chief Joseph

We soon found that the white men were growing rich very fast, and were greedy.

— Chief Joseph

I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

— Chief Joseph