I Would Have Given My Own Life

I Said In My Heart That, Rather Than Have War, I Would Give Up My Country.

I Did Not Want My People Killed. I Did Not Want Bloodshed.

I Do Not Believe That The Great Spirit Chief Gave One Kind Of Men The Right To Tell Another Kind Of Men What They Must Do.

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.

The Indian Race Is Waiting And Praying.