Native Voices: Chief Joseph

A daring escape from the U.S. Army across 5 states!

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Film & Animation

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• USA
• America
• history
• native
• american
• Chief
• Joseph
• indian

[driftking4]

wow this was great. i am also nez perce and im not sure if im related to chief joseph. some ofmy family tell me that i am and some of them just arent sure so i dont no. i dont no if this will make any difference but my grandfather is nez perce and my grandmother is colville, if chief joseph has any ties to the colville tribe. im just curious if i am

[zacuan]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Even if it turns out you're not related to Chief Joseph directly, you still have a proud and incredible history through your native heritage.

[FuneralRoses]

I also want to throw out there that our real tribal is Nee-Me-Poo, it means 'the people.' And Joseph's real tribal name is Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht (i wrote the names this way b/c its esier for ppl to read) and it means 'Thunder Rolling in the Mountains.'

[zacuan]

One of the best things about these videos is that native people, sometimes relatives of the subjects of my videos, leave comments or contact me. It truly is an honor to read your words, FuneralRoses, and thanks for the corrections and explantions of the names. Your ancestor's story seems to affect everyone who learns it, and I hope I did his memory justice.

[Lyecoatha]

I have a quote attributed to Chief Joseph on my homepage, it reads: The earth is the mother of all people and all people should have equal rights upon it. ~Chief Joseph, 1879 This is a brilliant video zacuan, thank you for posting it! ~Barb (winspirit)

[zacuan]

They had such a profound way of saying things, I just can't help but be in awe of thier words.

[woomou]

Why is it that we support Israel doing the same thing 200 years later to the Palestinians. did we learn nothing from our history.

[RandomActsOfGreen]

Greatest AMERICAN traggidy :(...

5***** Video

I am part Cherokee, part Creek

My heart will always ache for the loss of so many brave warriors, women and babies...

GOD Speed and I Pray that they all danced a great dance on the path to meet their Creator!

[breffnipark]

Chief Joseph was a great man !

[1550508]

America, America, God shed His shame on thee! One day this country

will be brought to its knees for what it did to the original peoples living here.

Custer and all the Low Lives << nothing to be proud of.

[tribegoddess]

I've heard that Chief Joseph never actually made that speech. True or not, it does not matter who wrote it or who said it. The words are beautiful, and we have them today. Our tribe believed and believes in owning land, Still I love the words.  Manitoumahwhingon, Chippewa Elder

[yu313smile]

Chief Joseph is a great man. Not until I search the word ''greatest speech'' in Yahoo did I knew him.

To be honest, as a Chinese, I don't know a thing about Indian and any other tribes in the West. But Chief Joseph's peaceful and considerate act still touches me.

Why can't people just simply stay together in peace? Is that true that the nature of human is so ugly that we love to invade others?

[14Renegade]

Many years ago, I studied the plight of the Nez Perce under Joseph. As part of the research I received, I once had a photocopy of his death certificate. One night, sitting around the campfire, he simply curled over dead. The official cause of death on the certificate, as signed by an army physician was "Broken heart." My own heart still aches when I read these words about a brave man and fearless leader.

[isot714]

The whites are thieves and butchers. And like all thieves they try to rewrite their past, forgetting about all the lives they have destroyed. -Isot(wolf) Acjachemen Nation

[dsfddsgh]

@fanwuren No most likely the muslims would have just cut his head off.

[WorldAttendant]

The ABOMINATIONS of the Government of the United States of America; A apostate era from the beginning; of violence and of death. Workers of iniquity; deceit, lies, artifice, oppression murder, a robber and thief.! "A witness unto all nations; Of the United States of Americas proceeding ABOMINATIONS"

[MrIndianSupporter]

I live in North America and only after coming here and meeting the indigenous people and reading this like this has distanced me from white people because they are savages. Native will regain their land some day and the whites will be no more.

[dana8567]

Very sad, I just ache for what happened to such a great people. There will never be anymore like them. They were so wise and had such courage.