I Believe Much Trouble Would Be Saved

You Might As Well Expect Rivers To Run Backwards As Any Man Born Free To Be Contented Penned Up.

I Know That My Race Must Change. We Cannot Hold Our Own With The White Men As We Are. We Only Ask An Even Chance To Live As Other Men Live. We Ask To Be Recognized As Men. We Ask That The Same Law Shall Work Alike On All Men. If An Indian Breaks The Law, Punish Him By The Law. If A White Man Breaks The Law, Punish Him Also.

We Do Not Want Churches. They Will Teach Us To Quarrel About God.

We Gathered All The Stock We Could Find, And Made An Attempt To Move. We Left Many Of Our Horses And Cattle In Wallowa. We Lost Several Hundred In Crossing The River.

My Father... Had Sharper Eyes Than The Rest Of Our People.