I am tired of fighting . . . It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead.
--"I will fight no more forever": Chief Joseph
a. the defeat of American Indian peoples by United States troops
b. the expansion of buffalo hunting by American Indians like the Nez Perce
c. the death of Sitting Bull, an important Lakota leader
d. the Ghost Dance, a new American Indian religious ceremony
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The event in the history of the West in the late 1800s that prompted Chief Joseph to give this speech is:
a. the defeat of American Indian peoples by United States troops.
Chief Joseph delivered this speech in 1877 after the Nez Perce people were defeated during their attempted escape to Canada. His speech expresses the profound sorrow and weariness from the ongoing conflict and the suffering experienced by his people.
