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	Chief Leschi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chief Leschi (1808 - February 19, 1858) was chief of the Nisqually Native American tribe.
		Leschi himself was put on trial in 1858 for the murder of Colonel Moses, which he denied having committed.
		In December 2004, Chief Leschi was cleared by a unanimous vote by a Historical Court of Inquiry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chief_Leschi (692 words)

	A requiem for Chief Leschi : ICT [2004/11/16] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		However, to the Nisqually, Chief Leschi is a tribal and regional icon, a symbol of resistance against European invaders who the tribe feels was unjustly accused of the crime for which he was sentenced to death.
		In fact, Chief Leschi ranks only second to the celebrated Chief Seattle as an Indian historical figure in the Pacific Northwest, which is one of the reasons that the tribe and local officials felt it so important to have a retrial.
		Chief Leschi's name adorns streets, schools and developments in the region and because of the prevalence of his name it is necessary to try and clear him of any wrongdoing.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096409876 (995 words)

	Historical court clears Chief Leschi's name
		Iyall is an indirect descendent of the chief.
		Leschi, who was born in 1808 near the Nisqually River, was designated a chief of the Nisqually Nation by territorial Gov. Isaac Stevens, who was seeking to negotiate treaties with the Indian tribes.
		In rejecting Leschi's appeal of his conviction, the territorial supreme court opened its decision by identifying Leschi as a leader of the Indian forces that "cruelly waged" war on settlers, "sacrificing citizens" in the Puget Sound region.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/203382_leschi11.html (1119 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Nisqually Chief Leschi is hanged on February 19, 1858.
		On February 19, 1858, Nisqually Chief Leschi (1808-1858) is hanged on a gallows at Fort Steilacoom, for the "murder" of the American soldier Colonel A. Benton Moses.
		Chief Leschi's attorneys argued firstly that Leschi had not actually been the one to kill Colonel Moses, and secondly that Colonel Moses was killed during warfare (in which there were casualties on both sides), requiring that his accused killer should not be tried in a civilian court.
		Leschi led probably 300 troops against the United States and settlers in the skirmishes of the Indian Wars in 1855 and 1856.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=5145 (764 words)

	Leschi
		Leschi's father was from the area around Carr Inlet, and his mother, from a Klickitat clan east of the Cascade Mountains, contributed much to the wealth of her husband's family.
		Leschi is often discussed today in comparison with his contemporary Si'alh (Chief Seattle), the discussion centering on the ways in which the two interacted with white settlers -- Si'alh, the icon of peaceful co-existence, in contrast to Leschi, the defiant túbšuhduh' (warrior).
		Leschi is remembered today for his courage and sacrifice by the descendants of those he fought to protect.
	www.lushootseed.net /Leschi.htm (1746 words)

	SR.com: Court exonerates chief hanged in 1858
		It was the news her tribe had waited to hear since 1858, when Nisqually Chief Leschi was hanged for the murder of a white militia soldier.
		Leschi was hanged for the killing of Col. A.
		But the judges were convinced that Leschi should have been protected by the rules of war, which prevent lawful combatants from being prosecuted.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=42690 (562 words)

	Research Indians pg7
		Chief Leschi was determined to correct the wrongs done by the Medicine Creek Treaty.
		Mason, however, already had reports from settlers that Chief Leschi was causing "trouble," talking with Indians and urging them not to settle for the poor reservation.
		Leschi was tried for the murders of one soldier, although many people did not feel that Chief Leschi should be held responsible for the crimes of the war.
	www.ci.tumwater.wa.us /researchindianspg7.htm (776 words)

	Was Chief Leschi wrongfully convicted? Court review will decide
		Leschi was executed in 1858 for killing a militia soldier.
		Leschi, anointed war chief of the Nisqually and champion of his people, swung from the gallows in a prairie near Steilacoom nearly 150 years ago.
		Leschi was charged with the murder of A. Benton Moses, a militia soldier ambushed in a Pierce County prairie shortly after Leschi had fled his home.
	www.ancientworlds.net /457415 (1752 words)

	Seattle Parks and Recreation: Leschi Park
		Leschi Park is a well-manicured, rolling hillside of grass planted with exotic trees and gardens of roses.
		The park was a former campsite of Chief Leschi, of the Nisqually tribe.
		Leschi was executed by territorial Governor Isaac Stevens for his participation in the Battle of Seattle.
	www.cityofseattle.net /parks/parkspaces/leschi.htm (214 words)

	Native Americans-Pg 1
		Chief Green McCurtiain enjoyed and deserved the love and confidence of the Choctaw people and the greater part of his life was given to their service.
		Quanah was the son of Chief Peta Nocona and Cynthia Ann Parker, a white captive.
		He was appointed chief shortly after his surrender to the whites, though the elder chiefs often resented his youth and his white blood.
	www.snowwowl.com /swolfpastnotables.html (9102 words)

	US Indian chief exonerated of murder 146 years after his execution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chief Leschi's life ended on a wintry day in 1858 when he was hoisted onto a gallows in the northwestern US state of Washington after he was found guilty of murdering a white US militiaman three years earlier.
		Chief Leschi, who was in the process of negotiating a peace treaty with the US settlers, was arrested and charged with killing Moses during an ambush bear present day Seattle.
		Leschi was a superb orator and was often called upon to settle disagreements within the tribe, according to Nisqually historian Cecelia Svinth Carpenter.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1300674/posts (2547 words)

	Court exonerates Wash. Indian chief \| www.azstarnet.com ®
		TACOMA, Wash. - Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Indian tribe was exonerated by a historical court Friday, nearly a century and a half after he was hanged for the death of a militia soldier in what is now Washington state.
		Leschi (pronounced LESH-eye) was hanged in 1858 for killing Col. A.
		The historical court, led by state Supreme Court Chief Justice Gerry Alexander, ruled that if Leschi did in fact kill Moses, they were lawful combatants in a time of war, so a murder charge was not justified.
	www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/52113 (316 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Historic Nisqually chief exonerated
		Leschi, they ruled, should not have been tried for murder because the slaying of A.B. Moses had occurred during a time of war.
		Cynthia Iyall, a Leschi supporter, told the judges that the exoneration would add a new paragraph to a story, a new chapter in history books, a new panel in museum exhibits.
		Leschi, a revered leader to his Nisqually people, is a known namesake throughout the state.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002116406_leschi11m.html (561 words)

	Public Theology: A Matter of Justice and Honor
		His name was Leschi (pronounced lesh-eye), the last chief of the Nisqually tribe and the first man to be legally executed in the territory that would become Washington state.
		She devoured every account of the story, and the more she learned of Leschi — that he was an orator rather than a warrior, that he helped the area's first white settlers and tried twice to make peace with the Army — the deeper she felt the wound.
		Leschi was tried a second time, convicted by a jury of 12 white men, and sentenced to death.
	www.pubtheo.com /page.asp?pid=1420 (2260 words)

	Mossback: Ending an Indian War (Seattle Weekly)
		Hultman is a Pierce County deputy prosecuting attorney, and to him and a colleague, Mary Robnett, fell the unenviable task of defending the 19th century prosecution and conviction of Chief Leschi, the Nisqually tribal leader who played a key role in the Indian uprising of 1855–'56.
		Leschi was controversially hanged for murder in 1858 in what many believe amounted to a legal lynching.
		For example, the foreman of the grand jury that indicted Leschi was the chief witness against him, and his story kept changing.
	www.seattleweekly.com /news/0450/041215_news_mossback.php (1105 words)

	KOMO-TV - Seattle, Washington - News Archive - 148 Years Later, Chief Leschi Exonerated
		Chief Leschi was given a new trial and a chance to change history.
		You can't change the outcome because Chief Leschi died at the end of a noose, convicted of killing a militiaman.
		Leschi's family is glad the truth is finally emerging.
	www.komotv.com /news/printstory.asp?id=34346 (527 words)

	150 Years After His Execution, Justice for an Indian Chief
		A special Historical Court in Tacoma, Washington, has exonerated a prominent Nisqually Indian chief in a unanimous decision that came a century and a half after he was hanged for the murder of a U.S. soldier.
		In 1858, Chief Leschi was hanged after being tried and convicted of shooting to death territorial militia member A.B. Moses in what was the state's first recorded murder.
		During the four-hour trial, Chief Leschi was described as someone who simply wanted to stop the relocation of his people from the banks of the Nisqually River to the prairie.
	www.voanews.com /english/archive/2005-01/2005-01-04-voa66.cfm (727 words)

	Leschi: Historical Court of Inquiry and Justice
		Chief Leschi's execution was the first recorded case of capital punishment in Washington Territory.
		The chief's descendents and historians now agree that Leschi was wrongly put to death for killing Abram Benton Moses, a colonel in the territorial volunteer militia who was serving with the US Army troops based at Fort Steilacoom.
		Chief Justice Alexander explained that the Historical Court of Inquiry and Justice was a definitive trial in absentia -- a new day in court for Chief Leschi.
	www.washingtonhistory.org /wshm/leschi-trial.htm (686 words)

	ABOLISH Archives, 1 March, 2004 to Present: exoneration after e (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Chief Leschi (pronounced LESH-eye) was hanged in 1858 for killing Col.
		descendant of Chief Leschi's sister and chairwoman of the Committee to
		Iyall, a descendant of Chief Leschi's sister and chairwoman of the
	venus.soci.niu.edu /~archives/ABOLISH/dec04/0860.html (862 words)

	Indian chief acquitted of 1855 murder - U.S. News - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ted S. Warren / AP Cynthia Iyall, a descendant of the sister of Nisqually Indian Chief Leschi, holds a portrait of the chief on Nov. 30, in Lakewood, Wash., next to a monument that marks a spot 300 yards from where he was hanged in 1858.
		After Leschi’s first trial ended with a hung jury, the judge in the second trial refused to instruct jurors that killing an enemy soldier in war is not considered murder.
		Nisqually Indians have kept Leschi’s legacy alive by telling his story to their children and grandchildren, and his name appears on schools, monuments and even a Seattle neighborhood.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6697065 (676 words)

	Leschi: Historical Court of Inquiry and Justice
		Chief Leschi of the Nisqually Tribe was war chief of the Medicine Creek nations during the war between the United States and the Tribes of Western Washington.
		In response to this memorial Chief Justice Alexander and the descendants of Leschi and the Nisqually Tribe decided to convene a historic court at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma.
		Chief Leschi, Chief of the Nisqually Tribe and War Chief of the Medicine Creek Nations, was exonerated of murder on December 10, 2004.
	www.wshs.org /wshm/leschi-trial.htm (686 words)

	Prologue - Prologue: Selected Articles
		The historical Chief Seattle was the head man of the Duwamish and several other related small bands of Indians inhabiting the shores of Puget Sound.
		Clarence B. Bagley, "Chief Seattle and Angeline," The Washington Historical Quarterly, 22 (Oct. 1931): 251, Angeline was a daughter of the chief.
		The chief levied a small annual tribute from the settlers of his namesake town for the privilege of using his name.
	www.archives.gov /publications/prologue/1985/spring/chief-seattle.html (2787 words)

	More about Judicially Murdered
		The man's name was Leschi, member of the Nisqually Tribe and leader of the Puget Sound Tribes during their fight against extinction.
		Her great, great uncle Ezra Meeker was a juror in Leschi's first trial, one of only two members of the jury who voted not guilty.
		Anne was present at the Historical Court of Justice as spectator and tearful witness when the two ends of a 146-year-long twisted coil of events finally joined to exonerate Leschi, a man she had grown to respect.
	www.meltonpub.com /Books/more.about.judidiclly.murdered.html (1101 words)

	famous and nonfamous strangers: A little correction and a big one
		The bigger correction, which is related, is that the eponymous Chief Leschi wasn't a murderer.
		Leschi became the tribes' "war chief" and was convicted of murdering a militia soldier, despite evidence that he was not present at the ambush in question.
		Leschi became the first person sentenced to death by white justice in the Washington Territory.
	www.nonfamous.com /blog/archives/000224.html (253 words)

	[No title]
		The Descendants of Chief Leschi, and The Nisqually Indian Tribe, Petitioners.
		The Petitioners in this case are the living descendants of Nisqually Indian Chief Leschi; and the Nisqually Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribe, the successor in interest to certain bands and tribes which were parties to the Treaty of Medicine Creek of 1854 (10 Stat.
		Leschi was a chief of the Nisqually Indian Tribe at the time of the treaty of Medicine Creek.
	www.courts.wa.gov /newsinfo/nisqually/petitionforexoneration.doc (587 words)

	[REDYOUTH] Leschi -- for whose fine reputation Ralph Chaplin and many others fought -- is finally cleared! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In time, I accumulated two copies of his Leschi epic which are in my large collection of radical labor material from the United States and Canadian West.
		Leschi and Chaplin's epic are a part of my own long essay, Reflections on Ralph Chaplin, the Wobblies, and Organizing in the Save the World Business -- Then and Now.
		His hangman, Charles Grainger, said later: "I felt then I was hanging an innocent man, and I believe it yet." Nisqually Indians have kept Leschi's legacy alive by telling his story to their children and grandchildren, and his name appears on schools, monuments and even a Seattle neighborhood.
	www.pinko.net /pipermail/redyouth/2004-December/000352.html (733 words)

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