I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War

Beal, Merril D.

ISBN 10: 0295740094 / ISBN 13: 9780295740096

Published by University of Washington Press, 1963

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00093612983

Synopsis:

Unpublished letters and diaries by eyewitnesses, interviews with decedents, an intimate knowledge of the country enrich this narrative of the heroic Nez Perce Indian War waged in 1877 against relocation. The result is a well documented chronicle offering new perspective on prewar Indian-white relations, United States government pressures and nontreaty rebellions, the five battles, subjection and surrender, and on the character of the leaders on both sides. “From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever,” Chief Joseph said in surrender. But as a guardian and protector of his people he at last succeeded in bringing back the remaining members of his tribe to their beloved valley. Calling Professor Beal’s book, “definitive, but not final,” Herman J. Deutsch, professor emeritus of American history at Washington State University, writes in the foreword: “Joseph and his band remain an example and inspiration to those who today are seeking recognition as human beings, equal in the sight of God and therefore entitled to like status among men. Those who recognize that such aspirations must not for long remain unfulfilled can derive from Nez Perce history examples of the consequences of policies conceived in ignorance and colored with disdain of the culture and way of life of minority peoples. ...A world surfeited with deceptive success stories can ill afford to forget a people and their leader who attained their true moral stature as they were facing their doom.”

From the Back Cover: In this superb summation of the ethnohistory of the Nez Perce tribe containing also careful analyses of the military campaigns and political events and a wholly balanced review of facts, opinions, and previous evaluations of the situation and circumstances within have colored the evidence, we have what seems to be the last word...

Bibliographic Details

Title: I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph ...
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Date: 1963
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good