Emily tells a joke that everyone finds amusing, and only a few people laugh.

Kara and Maribel pick up trash along the shoreline together.

Rain is in the forecast for the weekend, so Denzel packs an umbrella and raincoat for his trip.

Nick is supposed to meet Shauna at the library, but he goes to the north branch, and she goes to the south branch.

joking about what might happen at the event

saying who is on the guest list for the event

leading people to believe there will be music at the event when you know there won’t be

naming friends whom you are not looking forward to seeing at the event

build Native American schools

treat Native Americans as equals

adopt Native American traditions

return Native Americans to their homelands

All human beings are born to be free.

All human beings are born to be faithful.

All human beings are born to suffer harm.

All human beings are born to want greatness.

[Words] do not protect my father’s grave. They do not pay for all my horses and cattle.

Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace.

All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.

Good words will not make good the promise of your war chief General Miles.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble.

Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law.

the same needs

the same creator

the same problems

the same memories

Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves.

There has been too much talking by men who had no right to talk.

All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.

You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases.…

[Words] do not pay for my country, now overrun by white men.

Good words will not make good the promise of your war chief General Miles.

Give them [white Americans and Native Americans] all the same law.

All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief.

I do not understand why nothing is done for my people. I have heard talk and talk, but nothing is done.

I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and all the broken promises.

Too many misrepresentations have been made, too many misunderstandings have come up between the white men about the Indians.

If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law.

patient

cheerful

hopeless

exasperated

The person uses Chief Joseph’s words without giving him credit.

The person repeats Chief Joseph’s words too many times.

The person states Chief Joseph’s words incorrectly.

The person dislikes saying Chief Joseph’s words.

Chief Joseph seemed to believe in a government made up of people in which things were done by the people for the benefit of the people.

Chief Joseph seemed to believe in a government made up of the people, performed by the people, and with the people benefitting.

Chief Joseph seemed to believe in a government of the people, by the people, and to benefit people.

Chief Joseph seemed to believe in a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Change “meant” to “was the ability of.”

Change “thinking” to “to think” and “speaking to” to “speak.”

Change “speaking” to “the ability to speak.”

Change “the ability to do” to “doing.”