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Quotation from I Will Fight No More Forever by Chief Joseph
“I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking-Glass is dead, Ta-hool-hool-shute is dead. The old men are all dead.”
I Will Fight No More Forever, Harper's Weekly text, sentences 3-5 (Harper's Weekly, 17 November 1877)
Joseph names the losses that have brought him to surrender.
Citation: "I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking-Glass is dead, Ta-hool-hool-shute is dead. The old men are all dead." — Chief Joseph, I Will Fight No More Forever, Harper's Weekly text, sentences 3-5 (Harper's Weekly, 17 November 1877). (id i-will-fight-no-more-forever-q2)
Portrait: Chief Joseph by Edward Sheriff Curtis, Edward S. Curtis / Adam Cuerden, Public domain.
