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Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

The white men told lies for each other. They drove off a great many of our cattle. Some branded our young cattle so they could claim them.

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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.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

A man who would not love his father's grave is worse than a wild animal.

I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.

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.

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

I know that my race must change.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

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

My father was the first to see through the schemes of the white man.

An Indian respects a brave man, but he despises a coward.

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be...

Our people could not talk with these white-faced men, but they used signs which all people understand.

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

General Howard informed me, in a haughty spirit, that he would give my people 30 days to go back home, collect all their stock, and move onto the reservation.

War can be avoided, and it ought to be avoided. I want no war.

I did not want my people killed. I did not want bloodshed.

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