Chief Joseph

Chief Joseph
(Nez Percé/Nimiipuu leader, c. 1840-1904)

“I believe much trouble and blood would be saved if we opened our hearts more.”

  • Chief Joseph’s Own Story, by Chief Joseph, originally published in 1879; republished with an introduction by Bishop W. H. Hare and General Howard’s Comment in The North American Review (1879). Reprinted by Kessinger Publishing, 2010.

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  1. Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce was a good moral leader. He just failed to realize that white men knew no such morals. Their god afforded them a life of unlimited avarice and deceit and an afterlife in heaven if only they repent before death. Chief Joseph believed men were jus=died by the life they led not some magical I believe before death.

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