Here is the text of Chief Joseph’s surrender speech at the Bear Paw Mountains battleground in Montana on Oct. 5, 1877: “Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before I have in ...

Chief Joseph was born in 1840 in the Wallowa Valley ... brilliant episodes of the so-called Indian Wars. During the formal surrender on Oct. 5, 1877 Joseph delivered his famous speech in which ...

Nelson Miles, who had led the forces that finally caught the Nez Perce families, declared the chief “the best Indian” he’d ever met. Joseph’s surrender speech was widely recited in schools.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce ... where he lived after his surrender in the Nez Perce war in 1877. Joseph died Sept. 21, 1904, at the age of about 60.While sitting before the fire in his lodge ...

He shouted at him: "General Howard, what do you mean by printing that article about Chief Joseph's surrender without my consent? You know the Articles of War forbid it!" General Howard said ...

Chief Joe Redthunder] So the order came ... had great influence since they were the only chiefs still alive. Joseph spoke for surrender. Aged medicine man White Bird was opposed.

It was after Bear Paw Mountain, when continuing to fight seemed futile, that Chief Joseph surrendered his remaining forces to Miles and Howard. In his surrender speech, Chief Joseph concluded with ...

After surrender, he waged a 25-year campaign to ... The chief had been to many cities, but never Seattle. His main purpose: "Chief Joseph will ask again for the Nez Perce lands ...

The author follows chiefs Joseph, Ollokot, Looking Glass and White Bird through their armed resistance to Howard's order, their torturous six-month flight toward Canada and their final surrender ...

Chief Joseph painting by Cyrenius Hall at the National ... Joseph, whose heroic retreat and eloquence in surrender helped form his legacy, still had frostbite on his fingers from snowbound ...