Chief Joseph

A detailed Summary of Chief Joseph

The person that I did my first quarter project on was Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph was born

in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley (the Wallowa Valley is now northeastern Oregon). He was

born into the tribe of the Nez Perce. The name that the tribe gave him was

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, the translation is Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain. He was

also known as Joseph the younger because, Joseph was the name his father had taken

Joseph the Elder (Joseph's father) was the first Nez Perce to convert to

Christianity. He also tried hard to keep peace between the tribe and the whites. In 1855

Joseph's father helped Washington's territorial governor set up a reservation for the Nez

Perce, which ran from Oregon into Idaho. Onl

the Nez Perce territory. The government took back a lot of their land and they were left

government split the tribe in two and sent half to Idaho and half to a non-Nez Perce

mile march. But Joseph's fame did him no good. Joseph's tribe would be allowed to return

y eight years later there was a gold rush in

until he died in 1904. Still being kept from his land, his doctor said that he died of a

keep it when in 1873 a federal order was written to move all white setters out of Wallowa

Valley. But soon after, in 1877 General Oliver Otis Howard threatened to attack Joseph's

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