Chief Joseph Journal Entry #3

"I Will Fight No More Forever"(1877)  Speech - Chief Joseph
The fight for freedom can only be fought for so long until a breaking point is reached. Chief Joseph protected and defended his people and land for as long as he could, but forces of the US were too strong and he had to surrender in order to keep from losing the entire Nez Perce tribe.  In his surrender to the US government, Joseph wrote a speech titled "I Will Fight No More Forever", he says defeatedly, "Hear me, my chiefs, my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more against the white man" ("Chief Joseph: I Will Fight No More Forever speech (1877)." American History. ABC-CLIO, 2012).  The forcefulness of the United States destroyed an entire tribe's culture when they made them move to a reservation that was already a mixture of multiple other tribes.