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What were chief joseph's basic demands? why would whites have balked at meeting them?

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Chief Joseph just wanted the land of his people back. The whites didn't want to give it up due to the discovery of gold. The whites overtook the land and even took the Native Americans' livestock and claimed them as their own.
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