Words Do Not Pay For My Dead

Lawyer Acted Without Authority From Our Band. He Had No Right To Sell The Wallowa Country.

All Men Were Made Brothers. The Earth Is The Mother Of All People, And All People Should Have Equal Rights Upon It. You Might As Well Expect The Rivers To Run Backward As That Any Man Who Was Born Free Should Be Content When Penned Up And Denied Liberty To Go Where He Pleases.

I Only Ask Of The Government To Be Treated As All Other Men Are Treated. If I Cannot Go To My Own Home, Let Me Have A Home In A Country Where My People Will Not Die So Fast.

We Were Like Deer. They Were Like Grizzly Bear.

Let Me Be A Free Man, Free To Travel, Free To Stop, Free To Work, Free To Trade Where I Choose, Free To Choose My Own Teachers, Free To Follow The Religion Of My Fathers, Free To Talk, Think And Act For Myself — And I Will Obey Every Law Or Submit To The Penalty.