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