Wallowa County

The Nez Perce was one of the most powerful tribes in the Pacific Northwest and was the friendly to the whites. ("Chief Joseph"1). Most of their tribe was baptized as Christians. Joseph the Elder was the first Nez Perce to convert to Christianity. In 1855, he even helped George Washington's territorial governor set up a Nez Perce reservation that stretched from Oregon into Idaho. ("Chief Joseph" 1 PBS.org) Then in 1863, they found gold in the mines where the Nez Perce reservation was located. The U.S. government found out and took almost all the land they gave them. Then Joseph the Elder burned his American flag and bible. Joseph the Elder refused to move his tribe and sign the treaty about the new reservation. In 1871 Joseph died, and his son Chief Joseph stepped up to be the new chief. "In 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard threatened a cavalry attack to force Joseph's band and other hold-outs onto the reservation"("Chief Joseph"1 PSB.org). The Nez Perce War started when the U.S. government took the Nez Perce homeland away because there were gold mines in their reservation. Another conflict was that white settlers arrived on the reservation and the Nez Perce got very angry. The U.S. government offered the Nez Perce a smaller reservation, but they refused to take it. Instead, Chief Joseph led families towards Canada. "For more than three months, Chief Joseph led his followers on a retreat of about 1,600–1,700 miles across Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana, outmaneuvering…

appointed physician in 1890 on the Colville Reservation in the Nespelem quarter (Gidley 1981). Edward S. Meany (1862 – 1935) was an educator and a historian. Henry M. Steele (1863 – 1903) pioneer, and Barnett Stillwell (1864 – 1928) was a businessman and teacher, and taught at the Nespelem Day School. John McAdam Webster (1849 – 1921) was a U.S army officer and Indian agent (Gidley 1981). These people will play an important role later on in the third section of this book, they document the few…

The Nez Perce language, alternatively called Nuumiipuutimt or Nuumiipuutímt, is classified as a Sahaptin language. It is located in Kamiah and Lapwai, Idaho which is on the Nez Perce Reservation. It is also spoken in the Colville Reservation in Washington using the Upriver dialect of this language as well as in the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon using the Downriver dialect. Nez Perce uses the Latin script to write in their language. According to a 2000 census, the Nez Perce language has an…

City-states of the ancient world were one of the first political entities with democratic governance. Part of the democratic process is authorizing individuals to make decisions, holding these individuals accountable, and for these individual to be responsive to the needs of the community (Pitkin, 1957). Today, cities have low levels of democratic participation that hold elected officials accountable and authorize them to have the power to make a decision. At the same time, a majority of the…

the User-Friendly Budget may not create further citizen engagement based upon the research. Research has shown that by studying the budget process in all 50 states, we ended up with a wide variety of requirements. The only similarity that appears through this study was that state governments are primarily only concerned with the first step of informing the public. There is no requirement or mandate beyond this to narrow the gap between government's creation of the budget document and citizen…

Types of external considerations within Rutherford County are related to natural disasters, political disasters and macroeconomic shifts, including inflation, rate of growth, and unemployment. As a measure to offset natural disasters, we have relationships with other counties across the state coordinate efforts with our Emergency Management team. Indeed, the county 's mitigation planning efforts consist of local, state, and federal assistance. Unfortunately, there are few measures to plan for…

Haoyu Zhao PUP432 10.15.2015 Case Brief Contractors And Builders Association Of Pinellas County V. City Of Dunedin Background Context Until the 20th century, the general law in Florida stipulated that local governments could only obtain funds from public revenues as they had no authority to taxes. The local government made the realization that these funds were insufficient for running the everyday affairs of the growing county. For this reason, the county turned to private sources…

Pivot Table / Chart Report Exercise There are four observations in the pivot table, and the one part of pivot table report is about the annual adult care facility, total number of census, SMI and SSI. The other part is about New York State Population, total population and total number of race and ethnicity distribution. The results that I received are come from the data Adult Care Facility Annual Survey and New York State Population. I use the pivot table or chart to get the observations. At the…

Jill started a new job as a count/verification assistant for the Johnson County Board of Elections. After completing her degree, she believed she would have the greatest chance of making a difference in her community and society as a whole. She had completed the counties required training and briefings, read and agree to the terms of the Statement of Secrecy, and she would have no problem with acting impartially at all times and respect confidentiality of material handled. Mark the senior…

The county commission is the local government in each of the fifty five counties. Fifty-four counties elect commissions that have 3 members while Jefferson County has a five-member. There are many different roles they do in Braxton County and many different people are in evolved in helping are county out. The county clerk has a big role in helping are county. Each county elects a county clerk whose responsibilities include the management of records of the county commission and election…