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Chief Joseph

You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Chief Joseph), “An Indian’s Views of Indian Affairs” (1879), The North American Review, 128 (269), 412–433.

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