You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.

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  Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fig

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• Chief Joseph:

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• Chief Joseph:

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• Chief Joseph:

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

• Chief Joseph:

  I know that my race must change.

• Chief Joseph:

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• Chief Joseph:

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• Chief Joseph:

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• Chief Joseph:

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