1. Leader and Spokesman for a People in Exile: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce.
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Jain, Samvit
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NEZ Perce (North American people) , *BATTLE of Bear Paw, Mont. 1877 , *FORCED removal of Native Americans - Abstract
The article presents and discusses the winning paper in the Junior Division Historical Paper, National History Day 2008 competition by Samvit Jain. The efforts of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe in Idaho during the 19th century to repatriate the tribe through protests won the support of the Indian rights movement of the 1880s. The U.S. government-proposed reservation for the Nez Perce tribe in 1863, U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant's peace policy for American Indians, which consolidated tribes on reservations and assigned them to Christian denominations, and Chief Joseph's testimony to a Congressional Investigating Committee on American Indian rights are discussed.
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- 2009