Afanelos,
Mung'a'hit tumaiguihe' as i Nez
Perce enai i'lekna' i Maga' Lahen-niha as Chief Joseph:
Chief Joseph's speech at the Bear Paw Mountains battleground in Montana on Oct. 5, 1877:
"...Tell
General Howard I know his heart…
What
he told me before I have in my heart…
I
am tired of fighting…
Our
chiefs are killed...
Looking
Glass is dead…
Toohoolhoolzote
is dead...
The
old men are all dead…
It
is the young men who say 'yes' or 'no...'
He
who led the young men [Olikut] is dead…
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 of them I can find…
Maybe
I shall find them among the dead…
Hear
me, my chiefs!
I
am tired…
My
heart is sick and sad…
From
where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever..."
Nesi'si'ta' i CHamoru man’daña’, o sino’ manetnun-ha’ un råtu’ maseha…
Mås-hit siempre’ metgut yan’gen man’daña’ para minauhlek-ta
mona, yan para I famguon-ta’ ni ti ta’ li’lie’ trabia’…
Yan’gen
sigi-ha’ hit man ma’ma’kilu’, pues siempre’ puma’rehu’-hit yan I Nez Perce, gi
san’halom un "reservation…"
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