Chief Joseph Freedom Index
“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.”
Chief Joseph, 1879
The idea behind the Chief Joseph Freedom Index is to measure the extent to which indigenous people today enjoy the freedoms Chief Joseph demanded the U.S. government respect.
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