1900 NEZ PERCE INDIANS Claims for Services during War with Joseph's Band 1877

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1900 NEZ PERCE INDIANS Claims for Services during War with Joseph's Band 1877Description Up for auction we have a report to the Congress of the United States.This report has been disbound and removed from a bound volume of these reports for individual auction.This report is as follows: "Claims of Nez Perce Indians. Letter from the Secretary of the Interior (Ethan A. Hitchcock), transmitting, Communication of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, inclosing report of Agent C. T. Stranahan, of the Nez Perce Agency, together with the testimony taken by him in support of the claims of the Nez Perce Indians for services rendered by them during the war with (Chief) Joseph's band of Nez Perces in 1877". Dated March 29, 1900. 120 pages. Measures 9" tall by 5-5/8" wide.From -"The Nez Perce were the largest tribe Lewis and Clark met between the Missouri River and the Pacific Coast. They ranged across today's central Idaho, southeastern Washington State, and northeastern Oregon, from the western base of the Rockies to the falls of the Columbia River.In the 1830s there were an estimated 6,000 Nez Perce. "Nez Perce," (French for "pierced nose") referred to the nose pendants which some of the Indians wore.As typical plateau Indians, the Nez Perce fished the Clearwater and Snake Rivers and harvested camas roots. When Clark and other members of the expedition emerged exhausted and starved from their journey through the Bitterroot Mountains, the Nez Perce greeted them with dried buffalo, camas root bread, and fish. Unfortunately this rich diet had an adverse effect on the digestive systems of the explorers.The U.S. government took control of large portions of their territory during the mid-1800s. In 1863 the Nez Perce were mostly confined to a portion of northwest Idaho. In 1877, a band of Nez Perce still living in Oregon and led by Chief Joseph refused to leave their lands but were defeated. Many of those Oregon survivors were moved to the Colville reservation in Washington, where descendants still live.Today many Nez Perce also live on a reservation in Idaho. As of 1990, 4,000 Nez Perce lived in the United States."Please see photos for more detailed information on the subject matter in this report.From Wikipedia -"Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography, popularly known as Chief Joseph or Young Joseph(March 3, 1840 - September 21, 1904), succeeded his father Tuekakas (Chief Joseph the Elder) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon, in the interior Pacific Northwest region of the United States.He led his band during the most tumultuous period in their contemporary history when they were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley by the United States federal government and forced to move northeast, onto the significantly reduced reservation in Lapwai, Idaho Territory. A series of events that culminated in episodes of violence led those Nez Perce who resisted removal, including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe, to take flight to attempt to reach political asylum, ultimately with the Lakota led by Sitting Bull, who had sought refuge in Canada.They were pursued eastward by the U.S. Army in a campaign led by General Oliver O. Howard. This 1,170-mile (1,900 km) fighting retreat by the Nez Perce in 1877 became known as the Nez Perce War. The skill with which the Nez Perce fought and the manner in which they conducted themselves in the face of incredible adversity led to widespread admiration among their military adversaries and the American public.Coverage of the war in United States newspapers led to widespread recognition of Joseph and the Nez Perce. For his principled resistance to the removal, he became renowned as a humanitarian and peacemaker. However, modern scholars, like Robert McCoy and Thomas Guthrie, argue that this coverage, as well as Jos... read more

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