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• ‟ Lawyer acted without authority from our band. He had no right to sell the Wallowa country.

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• ‟ Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

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• ‟ We did not know there were other people besides the Indian until about one hundred winters ago, when some men with white faces came to our country.

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• ‟ The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark. They brought many things that our people had never seen. They talked straight. These men were very kind.

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• ‟ A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

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• ‟ I said in my heart that, rather than have war, I would give up my country.

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