Chief Joseph : guardian of the people

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Label

Chief Joseph : guardian of the people

Title remainder

guardian of the people

Statement of responsibility

Candy Moulton

Creator

• trueMoulton, Candy Vyvey, 1955-

Subject

• Joseph, Nez Percé Chief, 1840-1904
• Nez Percé Indians -- Biography

Genre

• trueBiography

Language

eng

Summary

A portrait of the Nez Perce diplomat and defender covers the 1863 treaty that called for his tribe's removal to an Idaho reservation, his people's four month flight toward safety in Canada under his leadership, and his war leadership upon their capture forty miles from their destination. Chief Joseph, 1840-1904, became a legend due to his heroic efforts to keep his people in their homeland in Oregon's Wallowa Valley despite a treaty that ordered them onto a reservation in Idaho. In 1877, when the US army forced the Perce Nez away from their lands, Joseph led his tribe's people on a 1,500 mile, four month flight from western Idaho across Montana, through Yellowstone National Park and Wyoming, toward safety in Canada. During this journey, the Army attacked the Indians several times; in one battle alone, at the Big Hole in western Montana, ninety Indian men, women, and children were killed. The Nez Perce's flight ended at the Bear's Paw Mountains in northern Montana, just forty miles from the safety of the Canadian border. There the Army surrounded the Nez Perce captured their horses, killed all but two of their primary chiefs, and forced their capitulation. When Chief Joseph surrendered to military leaders he told them: from where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever. Promised by military commanders that they would be returned to Idaho, the Nez Perce were instead relocated to Indian Territory in Oklahoma where many died of fever and disease. Chief Joseph began a new fight for better conditions for his people and the right to return to their home country. His diplomacy and eloquence won public support and ultimately resulted in the Nez Perce return to Idaho and Washington

Member of

• trueAmerican heroes series (New York, N.Y.)

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

IJ5

Dewey number

979.50049741240092

Illustrations

• maps
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

American heroes series

Target audience

adult