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. 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.Which American Indian delivered this speech to General Howard in 1877?

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“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. 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."Which American Indian delivered this speech to General Howard in 1877?

A	Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce
B	Sitting Bull of the Hunkpapa Sioux
C	Little Big Man of the Oglala Lakota
D	Crazy Horse of the Lakota Sioux

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -"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.” On October 5, 1877, Chief Joseph spoke these words during his surrender in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chief Joseph is said to have responded to the general with an address that focused on respect for human equality. He expressed his disbelief that “the Great Spirit gave one kind of men the right to tell another kind of men what they must do.” Howard threatened a cavalry attack to remove the Wallowa Nez Perce.

Detailed explanation-3: -He said when Joseph told the two to tell Howard “what he told me before I have in my heart, ” Joseph was referring to the general’s promise that the Nez Perce would be sent to the reservation in Idaho should they surrender.

Detailed explanation-4: -Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to talk, think and act for myself-and I will obey every law or submit to the penalty.

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