Surrender Speech of Chief Joseph

Date1969

Mediumlithograph on paper

Dimensions20 3/4 × 15 7/8 in. (52.7 × 40.3 cm)

ClassificationsPrints & Printmaking

Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Diane Palley

Object numberPC2020.34.247

DescriptionPoster with a black-and-white photograph of two Native American men and text below reading: "'I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead, the old men are all dead. It is the young men who say no and yes. He who led the young men 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 they are 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 sad and sick. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.' --Surrender Speech of Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé."

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