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Series
Voices from Nez Perce country volume 1
Publisher
Washington State University Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, this book recounts an astonishing journey. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Perce band in Oregon's Wallowa Valley, had long sworn to uphold the dying words of his father: "This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your mother and your father." Yet, in 1877, as the U.S. government confined the tribe to ever smaller reservations, the fateful decision of several...
12) Nez Perce
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Nez Perce Indians.
13) River song
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
Danny Kachiah, a Nez Perce and unsuccessful rodeo rider, is eager to learn the traditional ways and pass them on to his son.
14) War chief Joseph
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1964, c1941]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
17) Chief Joseph
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
A biography of Chief Joseph, who led the Nez Percé as they hid from, fought with, and finally surrendered to Army soldiers, and who later spoke in Washington, D.C. about the rights of his people.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Gone to Texas: The true-life story of Sam Houston, the frontier hero and statesman whose bravery and vision led to the creation of the Republic of Texas.
I will fight no more forever: Shows events that led to the conflict in 1877 between the Nez Perces and the U.S. Army. Chief Joseph led the 300 Nez Perce braves, their women and children in the historic running battle against ten separate commands of the Army.
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