The promble is that the father said And I too speak with one tongue Belive me when i say that we do not wish to move to Lapwai i belive you chief Joseph. i cant move my people to lawai now my father said. The snake river is flooding. We would need to cross from one shore to the other through torrents of water. Many of my people are woman children and the old. I have thousands of cattle. Half of then would be swept away. My father thought hard. His mouth was closed tight and his hands were pressed across his chest. He glanced at snowy peaks at the blue lake and at the green meadows fading with the sun.