Chief Joseph

The person that I did my first 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 when he …

…D.C. in 1879 but was not allowed to go back the Pacific Northwest until 1885. But on his way back the government split the tribe in two and sent half to Idaho and half to a non-Nez Perce reservation in northern Washington. Joseph continued to speak out about the injustices brought upon him and his tribe until he died in 1904. Still being kept from his land, his doctor said that he died of a broken heart.