Peace for Us
Chief Joseph by Charles Russell
In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat which means
"Thunder-Traveling-to-Loftier-Mountain-Heights"
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 think and talk and act for myself-
and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty.
Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other,
then we will have no more wars. We shall all be alike-brothers
of one father and one mother, with one sky above us
and one country around us, and one government for all.
Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land,
and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands
from the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race are waiting and praying.
I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women
will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above,
and that all people may be one people.
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