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Chief Joseph A Biography
Vanessa Gunther
ISBN: 0-313-37920-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-37920-8
192 pages, photos
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/1/2010
List Price: $35.00 (UK Sterling Price: £24.95)
Availability: Not yet published. (Estimated publication date, 4/1/2010)
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Series Title: Greenwood Biographies
Description: Chief Joseph: A Biography explores the world of the Nez Perce Indians from their entrance into the Columbia Plateau through their relations with the expanding United States. It recounts their attempt to accommodate the rapidly changing world around them, and it follows the life of Chief Joseph, one of the their greatest peace leaders.

Readers will learn how “discovery” by Lewis and Clark at the beginning of the 19th century and the subsequent duplicity of white settlers and their government radically changed the Nez Perce way of life—and influenced Joseph's rise. Separating the real Chief Joseph from the myths that have grown around him, the book shows how he shepherded his people through the ordeals that confronted them, including the loss of their land and freedom and the persistent threats to the culture that had guided the Nez Perce for centuries.
 Title Features:
 Photos of Joseph, his brother, and other individuals who were prominent in his life and in the history of the Nez Perce
 A chronology of the major events in Nez Perce history and in the life of Chief Joseph
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