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Chief Joseph, Nez Percé

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Chief Joseph Speaks Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Percé Chief
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From the PBS program New Perspectives on THE WEST
An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs
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Serial: The North American Review Volume 0128 Issue 269 (April 1879)
Title: An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs [pp. 412-434]
Authors: Joseph, Young, Chief of the Nez Perces; Hare, W. H., Right Rev., D.D.
Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt
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"President Roosevelt talks of horseback riding with Edith, and how he has been reading to Archie and Quentin while she is sick. Roosevelt attended the Army and Navy reception where Chief Joseph and seven other Nez Perce Indians came in full war dress. John Singer Sargent is staying at the White House and painting Roosevelt's picture."

American Speeches
Call Number: E183 .A498 2006
ISBN: 9781931082976
Days with Chief Joseph by Erskine Wood
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
First Encounters: Native Voices on the Coming of the Europeans by Howard B. Leavitt
Call Number: GN368 .F57 2010
ISBN: 0313351317
Indian Oratory by W. C. Vanderwerth
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Call Number: Online - EBSCO
ISBN: 9780806115757
Famous Speeches By Noted Indian Chieftains
Nez Perce Joseph by O. O. Howard
Call Number: Online - free - HathiTrust
An account of his ancestors, his lands, his confederates, his enemies, his murders, his war, his pursuit and capture
Voices of the American Indian Experience by James E. Seelye (Editor); Steven Alden Littleton (Editor)
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Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780313381164
"This comprehensive work provides the entire history of American Indians, as told by Indians themselves."

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