"On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, 1877"

Chief Joseph tried to fight for the lands of the Nez Perce tribe. But against the US Army and the weather, he was forced to surrender. Here are some words from the speech he made at that moment. For words from a more formal speech he later addressed to Washington D.C, click here

Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
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  1. general
    an officer of the highest rank
    Tell General Howard that I know his heart.
  2. chief
    the head of a tribe or clan
    Our chiefs are killed.
  3. blanket
    bedding that keeps a person warm in bed
    It is cold and we have no blankets.
  4. freeze
    be cold
    The little children are freezing to death.
  5. heart
    the locus of feelings and intuitions
    Hear me, my chiefs, my heart is sick and sad.
  6. forever
    for a limitless time
    From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
Created on Mon Oct 13 10:53:10 EDT 2014 (updated Mon Oct 13 15:05:32 EDT 2014)

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