Wallowa County, Oregon

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 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…

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…

Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital is a children’s hospital at Memorial Regional located in Hollywood, Florida. It was renamed Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in 1992 becoming the first pediatric hospital in Broward County (Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital, 2016). Named after Hall of Fame baseball player Joe DiMaggio whose mission was to create a facility with the idea that no child will be turned away because of their inability to pay (JDCH, 2016). Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital is…

government affected them greatly. Congress passed the Homestead Act which offered settlers to build homes on a 160-acre plot in 1862. Calvin Hale, the Superintendent of Indian Affairs offered the Nez Perce $262,000 for ninety percent of their land. Tradition chiefs of the Nez Perce refused the proposal, but Lawyer the “head chief” signed the treaty without their consent. After Lawyer’s decision to sign the treaty, the Nez Perce were divided into two separate lands, Lapwai and Wallowa. Joseph and…