Chief Joseph Quotes
We are going by you without fighting if you will let us, but we are going by you anyhow!
Brown, Dee. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970, p. 321.
Little Wolf led 300 Cheyenne off the Reservation. The soldiers followed but never could catch the Indians. Little Wolf made good the escape to Montana where he was allowed to stay. Later, he worked as a scout for the Army.
Shortly after, he backed off the notion of having a bloodbath removing protesting students.
While this was a common attitude for years before, the horrors of World War II produced a general revulsion to war and an awareness that war between two nations spills over to other states in the region and in an era of globalization, effects countries in other parts of the world. So there has been a tendency to use diplomacy endlessly, even after "things have gone too far". Historically, when things reached that point, the parties did fight it out, and when one was weakened sufficiently, negotiations and diplomacy could then be fruitful.
He was wrong and the Boer War resulted
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) in the early 1870s.
