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…

Oregon is familiar to my country, because “The Love from Oregon,” Japanese TV drama, was a smash hit. “The Love from Oregon” is a fiction that Japanese Americans grow their own food and exist on that in the wild nature and seek an uncomplicated happiness through their lives under primitive conditions. So when I heard a word Oregon, I pictured the prairie. It seemed to be too rich in nature for me to live. While I clicked several websites, I figured out that my pictures were wrong; real pictures…

The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Salem (BGCGS) is a nonprofit organization which provides children of all ages a safe and positive place where numerous programs enable the children to reach their fullest potential. BGCGS operates with a strong understanding of what children need in order to succeed. For instance, all programs and activities are created to foster key competencies essential for youth to succeed, such as educational, social, emotional, cultural, health and well-being, positive…

Physician-Assisted Suicide Introduction Assisted suicide has been a debated topic for many decades now. Oregon was the first state in the union to allow for a physician to write a lethal prescription to end a terminally ill patients life (Volker, 2007). Since that time four other states have followed suite with similar or their own versions of legislation that allows for this type of act. Outside the United States, seven countries allow for some level of physician-assisted suicide. Most of…

CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING FROM WASHINGTON STATE TO OREGON STATE Introduction Tax policy is one strategy that states have to increase their competitiveness. From the 50 states nationwide, only five states do not impose sales tax or have a 0% sales tax rate; they are Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. Without sales tax, people can buy in these five states without spending extra money on tax and they can have extra ‘money’ for saving or spending on other goods. Compared to some other…

It is the year 2016, and the times are changing. People are improving past mistakes, and the ways they think. Open-mindedness has never been so prevalent, as well as having the ability to accept once demonized subjects. One would expect with such progression that has been made, one would also have the personal freedom to choose if they want to smoke cannabis. The potential positives for legal marijuana would branch to people who do not happen to partake, as the taxes put on recreational…

In the United States there are various interest groups. The progressives are a group of individuals that focused on trying to have the government play a better role in the lives of the American people. As quoted by UShistory.org “The Progressives were urban, Northeast, educated, middle-class, Protestant reform-minded men and women.” (Ushistory.org). This was what the Progressive movement was founded on until it spread like wildfire in the country in 1912 when the Progressive Party was founded.…