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  Chief Joseph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chief Joseph (1840–September 21, 1904) was the chief of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce Indians during General Oliver O. Howard's attempt to forcibly remove his band and the other "non-treaty" Indians to a reservation in Idaho.
Finally, in 1885, Chief Joseph and his followers were allowed to return to the Pacific Northwest, although many, including Chief Joseph, were taken to the Colville Indian Reservation, far from both the rest of their people in Idaho and their homeland in the Wallowa Valley.
Chief Joseph died in September of 1904 and was buried in Nespelem, Washington the site where many of his tribe's members still live.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Joseph   (1685 words)

  
 PBS - THE WEST - Chief Joseph
The man who became a national celebrity with the name "Chief Joseph" was born in the Wallowa Valley in what is now northeastern Oregon in 1840.
Joseph the Elder was one of the first Nez Percé converts to Christianity and an active supporter of the tribe's longstanding peace with whites.
Joseph staunchly resisted all efforts to force his band onto the small Idaho reservation, and in 1873 a federal order to remove white settlers and let his people remain in the Wallowa Valley made it appear that he might be successful.
www.pbs.org /weta/thewest/people/a_c/chiefjoseph.htm   (869 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Local News: 100 years after Chief Joseph, legend lives
Joseph, the son of a Nez Percé; tribal chief, was later banished with a small band of followers to the Colville Indian Reservation in Eastern Washington, where he would remain until his death.
Joseph and about 150 followers who wanted to retain their traditional beliefs were sent to the Colville Reservation, with members of a dozen other tribes and bands.
Joseph's father, who died in 1871, refused terms of a peace treaty in 1855 that was intended to open the area for gold miners and settlers.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002040820_chiefjoseph20.html   (930 words)

  
 A Review of Kent Nerburn's "Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Joseph, or Thunder Rising in the Mountains as he was known to his own people, was indeed a noble man. But he was not a “Red Napoleon.” Nerburn, who has written extensively on Native American culture, has discovered that Joseph was not the war chief of the Nez Perce during the fighting.
Joseph led but one of the bands and he was opposed to the idea of trying to escape to Canada.
Joseph agreed to cease fighting in the belief that the Army had guaranteed the return of his people to a reservation in their own land.
www.calitreview.com /Reviews/chiefjoseph_084.htm   (1599 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph and other leaders attempted to restrain those seeking revenge on civilian targets, but three ranches were raided for horses and five white ranchers, as well as another five civilian freight-teamsters were killed en route.
Joseph and all of the Nez Percé were taken into custody, held as prisoners of war, and sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Joseph and 150 of his non-Christian band were sent to the Colville Reservation, where the chief lived out the remainder of his life traveling and speaking on behalf of his people.
www.u-s-history.com /pages/h3813.html   (3143 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph was born around 1840 in the Wallowa Valley of what is now northeastern Oregon.
Under Joseph the Elder's leadership, the powerful Nez Percé; tribe was friendly to whites and Joseph the Younger was educated at a mission school.
Chief Joseph vigorously resisted all efforts to force his band onto the small Idaho reservation, and in 1873 a federal order to remove white settlers and let his people remain in the Wallowa Valley made it appear that he might be successful.
www.oregon.com /history/biography/chief_joseph.cfm   (622 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Joseph was born in the Wallowa Valley in 1840 near where Joseph Creek forks from the Grande Ronde River.
Joseph had lost only 12 warriors of the 89 Indians killed, because the brunt of the slaughter was on the women children and elderly.
Joseph continued his push to Canada but but was stopped at the border by General Miles See Photo and forced to surrender after a 5 day battle.
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 The My Hero Project - Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph was the leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Indian tribe during its desperate, daring war with the United States in 1877.
Chief Joseph was born in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley located in what's now called northeastern Oregon.
Joseph and the rest surrendered and were exiled to the Indian territory of Kansas.
myhero.com /myhero/hero.asp?hero=c_joseph   (1471 words)

  
 Oregon History ProjectOHP Oregon Biographies Chief Joseph
The legend of Chief Joseph and his famous retreat have long symbolized the loss of native peoples’ lives and cultures in the late nineteenth century.
Chief Joseph was born in 1840 and baptized at the Lapwai Mission in Idaho where he was given his Christian name.
Unsuccessful in his efforts to return to his homeland during his lifetime, Chief Joseph died in 1904 and was buried in the Colville Indian Cemetery on the Colville Reservation.
www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Chief-Joseph.cfm   (383 words)

  
 Teddy Dispatch
Chief Joseph asked Howard to let him have a few more months, after thousands of years of occupying their land, to prepare for departure.
Joseph was called a coward, but the tribe reluctantly accepted their new fate and began preparing to leave.
Chief Joseph was told that his people would be brought to their new reservation in Oregon.
www.ustrek.org /odyssey/semester1/010601/010601tedjos.html   (1582 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Joseph was born in Wallowa Valley, Oregon, in 1832.
However, Joseph stayed in the village where he developed a reputation for wisdom and was given the role of negotiating with the American authorities.
Chief Joseph was the highest type of the Indian I have ever known, very handsome, kind, and brave.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /WWjoseph.htm   (2479 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Joseph steadfastly held his immediate followers to their promise, but the land-grabbers were impatient, and did everything in their power to bring about an immediate crisis so as to hasten the eviction of the Indians.
Joseph formed an auxiliary corps that was to effect a retreat at each engagement, upon a definite plan and in definite order, while the unencumbered women were made into an ambulance corps to take care of the wounded.
Joseph told me that he estimated it would take six or seven days to get a sufficient force in the field to take up their trail, and the correctness of his reasoning is apparent from the facts as detailed in General Howard's book.
www.indians.org /welker/joseph1.htm   (2798 words)

  
 Examples: Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé; Native American people, is best known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations.
The Chief was a fierce warrior : the wideness of the skull at ear level (1) shows a very strong dynamic energy or Destructiveness.
This reflects the high moral values of the Chief, which strongly contrasts with the weak and cowardly manner his people was treated (unrespected treaties, confinement to reservations,...).
www.phrenology.org /joseph.html   (306 words)

  
 Chief Joseph tribute page
Joseph was 45 years old when he became chief of the Nez Percez's tribe.
Joseph's father maintained that this second treaty was never agreed to by his people.
Chief Joseph and his people after the fighting and the long marches were sent to a reservation that is now Oklahoma and were never permitted to see the land of their ancestors.
www.ondespirale.com /ozmoz/chiefa.htm   (243 words)

  
 The Great Chiefs - Chief Joseph
He was born at the mouth of Joseph Creek, in the Wallowa Valley, Washington, sometime between January and April 1832, the third child of Khapkhaponimi, a Nez Percé; woman, and her husband, Tuekakas, a Cayuse man also known as Old Joseph.
Joseph was the undisputed leader, but all chiefs participated in decisions and were free to go their own way.
Amid the fierce fighting Joseph had his men dig in, and they were able to beat off the soldiers and entrench themselves for a long siege; but Joseph clearly realized that defeat was inevitable for his small, weakened band.
nativeamericanrhymes.com /chiefs/joseph.htm   (1052 words)

  
 Bureau of the Public Debt : $200 I Bond - Chief Joseph   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Chief Joseph, a Native American leader, is best known for his principled resistance to the U.S. government's attempts to force the Nez Perce onto a reservation.
Chief Joseph was born in Oregon in 1840.
On a night that Chief Joseph was away from camp, a young Nez Perce man and his friends, avenging the killing of his father, attacked and killed a white settler.
www.publicdebt.treas.gov /sav/sbichief.htm   (443 words)

  
 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To the last, Chief Joseph wanted to avoid war; he said he needed more time because the river was too high and the livestock was scattered across the countryside.
Chief Joseph then made his famous speech in which he says, "I will fight no more forever." It was September, 1877.
Chief Joseph had always been dismayed because the whites had too many chiefs and none knew what the other was saying.
members.aol.com /Gibson0817/chiefjo.htm   (1405 words)

  
 ::: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection :::
Joseph was chief of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce and a leader of the Nez Perce during their desperate, daring 1877 war with the United States.
When Joseph was born in 1840 in a cave on Joseph Creek, a tributary of the Grand Ronde River, in the northeast corner of present-day Oregon, his people were already well known to Americans.
Joseph's national prominence rested initially upon the erroneous assumption that he masterminded the Nez Perce retreat, an error spread quickly and widely thanks to the telegraph and the emergence of a national media.
content.lib.washington.edu /aipnw/buerge2.html   (3986 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
All but Joseph and four other chiefs signed a treaty to leave their land and live on the Lapwai Reservation in Idaho.
Chief Joseph told the Indians they could not win a fight against the white men.
While Chief Joseph was back gathering the cattle, three of his warriors left the camp and started fires in the settlers homes.
www.mce.k12tn.net /indians/famous/chief_joseph.htm   (595 words)

  
 Chief Joseph - Picture and Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
Chief Joseph, leader of the Wallowa Valley band of the Nez Perce in northeastern Oregon, was respected for his leadership, wisdom, and eloquence.
Joseph and other chiefs led hundreds of Nez Perce men, women, and children on a remarkable four-month fighting retreat over mountainous terrain toward sanctuary in Canada.
Finally captured just 50 km (30 mi) from the Canadian border, Joseph surrendered with these words (read here by an actor), now one of the most famous surrender speeches in history.
encarta.msn.com /media_461530409_761570777_-1_1/Chief_Joseph.html   (168 words)

  
 Chief Joseph Dam Project
Chief Joseph Dam, constructed by the Corps of Engineers, is on the Columbia River in north-central Washington and is a key structure in the comprehensive development of the Columbia River Basin.
Meanwhile, the act of July 17, 1952 (Public Law 577), was enacted, providing a basis for authorization of irrigation works in connection with Chief Joseph Dam and for financial assistance to such developments from power revenues.
In 1950, a reconnaissance investigation was undertaken to establish a basic plan for irrigation of lands in the Okanogan Basin and lands along the Columbia River in the vicinity of Chief Joseph Dam and the mouth of the Okanogan River.
www.usbr.gov /dataweb/html/chiefjoseph.html   (3841 words)

  
 Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
Chief Joseph, was kept captive, never being allowed to return to his Nez Pearce Homeland even though General Miles promised he could live in Idaho.
Chief Joseph calls himself Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekht, and the tribe is said to use Numepo as their preferred title, though nomenclature among Indians is a parlous thing, many names at the same time and different names at different epochs being the fashion with them individually and in the mass.
Chief Joseph, as we all know, had a claim to the Wallowa Valley in Oregon, dating from the Stevens treaty in 1855, and conceded again to him and his tribe of about 500 Indians in 1873 by General Grant, while the latter was President.
www.indians.org /welker/joseph.htm   (3293 words)

  
 Chief Joseph - Nez Perce Nation
Joseph at this time was in his late thirties; he had succeeded his father as chief in 1871.
Joseph had been assured that the Nez Percéés would be permitted to return to their home country in the Wallowa Valley in eastern Oregon.
For the remainder of his life, Joseph tried unsuccessfully to convince federal authorities that he and others from his tribe should regain a place in the valley "where most of my relatives and friends are sleeping their last sleep." But he died at Colville and was buried there.
www.danielnpaul.com /ChiefJoseph-NezPerce.html   (1667 words)

  
 Chief Joseph
Chief Joseph, known by his people as In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat (Thunder coming up over the land from the water), was best known for his resistance to the U.S. Government's attempts to force his tribe onto reservations.
In 1855 Chief Joseph's father, Old Joseph, signed a treaty with the U.S. that allowed his people to retain much of their traditional lands.
Chief Joseph tried every possible appeal to the federal authorities to return the Nez Perce to the land of their ancestors.
www.powersource.com /gallery/people/joseph.html   (789 words)

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