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Hearing the thunder roll. (Letters to the Editor).
Kudos to William Norman Grigg for his article about Chief Joseph ("Protector of the Nez Perce," July 15th issue). When I was teaching college in Omak, Washington, a few years ago, I visited Chief Joseph's grave. It's on a hill outside Nespelem, Washington. It was windy and stormy that day, and I was the only one in the cemetery. Chief Joseph's grave was covered with streamers, cassette tapes, and notes from admirers.
I was struck by the fact that many people, Native Americans and Whites, still revere the great chief and made the pilgrimage that I had made -- nearly a hundred years after his death -- to an obscure, very out-of-the-way place on the Colville reservation.
Native American students told me some of the stories that still circulate on the reservation about Chief Joseph. They said he never gave up hoping to go home to the Wallowa Mountains. I was told that because he was a warrior, every morning he got up and dressed in his warrior clothes. He hated reservation life ...
- Protector of the Nez Perce: chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe excelled as a...
- Magazine article from: The New American Grigg, William Norman July 15, 2002 700+ words
...Nimipu nation the name by which they are known: "Nez Perce." The Nez Perce, like other Indian nations of the Northwest, were...Tu-ekakas. Captain Bonneville wrote that the Nez Perce were "among the gentlest and least barbarous people...
- The long retreat of the Nez Perce.(Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Heffern, Rich February 24, 2006 700+ words
CHIEF JOSEPH AND THE FLIGHT OF THE NEZ PERCE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY By Kent...HarperSanFrancisco, 418 pages, $24.95 The story of Chief Joseph and his band of Nez Perce has become part of our standard lore about the American...
- Chief Joseph and the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2006 700+ words
9780060513016 Chief Joseph and the flight of the Nez Perce; the untold story of an American tragedy. Nerburn...comprehensive study of the legendary chief who led the Nez Perce on their retreat from the US military in 1877 from eastern...
- CIVILIZATION `BACKFIRED,' SAYS 100-YEAR-OLD NEZ PERCE.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) July 21, 1997 700+ words
...tenth its size. Chief Joseph resisted and, with fewer than 300 Nez Perce, eluded 5,000...was White Bird, a Nez Perce chief and medicine...fought alongside Chief Joseph. Peterson was reared speaking the Nez Perce language, not learning...
- Oregon state court affirms halt of development on Nez Perce grave.(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Native American Law Report January 1, 2005 700+ words
...sacred grave of a former Nez Perce tribal chief. The development...adjacent to the grave of Old Chief Joseph, the father of the tribe's current Chief Joseph. In response to protests from the Nez Perce, the Oregon Land Use Board...
- CEREMONY TO MARK NEZ PERCE CONFINEMENT.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) April 13, 1998 700+ words
...Donna Sinclair, left the Nez Perce with ``sovereignty...rivers. A number of Nez Perce leaders - including Chief Red Heart and Chief Joseph - refused to sign that...move the non-treaty Nez Perce onto the Idaho reservation...
- WSU TREASURE-TROVE YIELDS BOOK ON FRIEND OF NEZ PERCE.(What's Happening)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) August 30, 1996 700+ words
...by the epic account of Nez Perce Indian warriors told...war clubs and even Chief Joseph's pipe. It undoubtedly...the best collection on Nez Perce history, Evans said...Virgil McWhorter and the Nez Perce Indians,'' a book...
- Indian tribe reaches back to its horse-filled heritage Nez Perce, once famous...
- Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel JIM ROBBINS November 10, 1996 700+ words
...In 1877, the Nez Perce were ordered by...their leader, Chief Joseph, made the famous...forever." The Nez Perce horses, bred over...the nephew of Chief Joseph, who was the saddle...50-year-old Nez Perce rode a horse named...
