Chief Joseph (1841-1904)
I. Introduction
- •Native Americans and white society
- •The futility of both accommodation and resistance
II. Chief Joseph's career
- •The Nez Perce of Oregon and Idaho
- •Lewis and Clark (1804-1805)
- •Nez Perce reservation (1873-1875)
- •Chief of Nez Perce (1871)
- •Conflict (1876-1879)
- •Gen. Oliver Howard (1876)
- •White Bird Canyon (June 1877)
- •Flight and surrender (June-October 1877)
- •Reservation life in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Eastern Washington
- •Chief Joseph's plea to Congress (1879)
III. Conclusion
- •National expansion and native interests
- •The problem of minorities in a democratic society