Chief Joseph Quotes
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 Supreme Court had ruled that Georgia and the other Southern States and the Federal Government could not remove the Cherokee from their land. However, President Jackson was going to force them off their very well developed farms and estates despite the Supreme Court ruling. Ridge and a few others were bribed by the whites to get a self- appointed group of Cherokee to “sell” their land in the South East to white syndicates, Ridge and his fellows then were given the choicest land in Oklahoma which was far inferior to the land that they had left.
Explaining apartheid to the European Press.
This is a very interesting quotation because it shows that the South American Indians were not only the victims of Spanish colonialism, but before Europeans ever set foot in the New World, expansionism, conquest and colonialism was alive and well. It was just that one Indian people imposed it on others. Note also the techniques of sending colonists to the new colonies to “civilize” the conquered peoples. Although this was common in Western History (even Alexander the Great used it, it was independently created as a colonial technique in the New World. The most extensive use of this technique was used by the Russians as that expanded to the Soviet Union the consequences of which we see in ethnic strife in the Balkans and the Ukraine even into the 21st century. Often these colonists were used as spies as well, in Peru {641657} as in all the Western examples.
His Indian Removal Policy forced Native American to leave their lands which were theirs by treaties signed by the United States and marched to the poorest land in Oklahoma where they were "resettled". This is often referred to as the "Trail of Tears". What made his actions evern wors was the fact that The Supreme Court had already ruled that such land belinged to the Cherokee Indian Tribe and the government of the United States may not force them from it. Jackson was the only President in Amrican History to defy a Supreme Court order.
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.
