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The person that I did myfirst 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 thefirst 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. Only eight years later there was a gold rush in
the Nez Perce territory. The government took back a lot of their land and they were left
with only one-tenth of the land they had received. Joseph's father was angry and destroyed
his American flag and Bible, he then refused to move his tribe form the Wallowa valley or
sign the treaty that would make the new reservation boundaries official. Eight years later
Joseph's father died leaving Joseph in charge.
Joseph was left with his fathers name and the same problem. Whites kept coming
to Wallowa Valley. Joseph kept fighting for his land and it looked like he would be able to
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
tribe if they didn't leave for another reservation in Idaho. Joseph did not want to fight the
army so he started to lead his people to Idaho. But before they left, twenty Nez Perce
warriors killed several nearby white settlers because they were angry about loosing their
land. After that the U.S army went looking for Joseph's tribe and find the one's