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commit indiscriminate muiucipeaceful families, which is usual, and fought with almost scientific skill, using advance and rear guards, skirmish lines and field fortifications.After his surrender, he and his people were sent to Fort Leavenworth and later to Baxter Springs, Kan. In these places many of the Indians died but it wasn’t until 1885 that the sorry remnant of this audacious band was sent to spend the remainder of their lives on the Colville reservation, in northern Washington—a country similar to their beloved Valley of the Winding Waters and a place where they could live in peace in a climate that they were accustomed to.For 12 years Chief Joseph lived quietly on his reservation but in 1897, becoming alarmed by the encroachments of the whites in their reservation, he again took up the defense of his people, this time by going to Washington and pleading with the president. Again it was General Miles the only white man that he believed and trusted—who promised him that his people would be unmolested in the lands that they now occupied.Returning to the reservation, he •gain settled dowun to enjoy the peace and quiet of old age. making only one more trip, this time a friendly visit to the president and his old friend,pidjglUUiiu oi»u r--o---------— —board of recreation of the city and school district has been concluded. Attendance was officially placed at 53,812. Eleven play areas were conducted during the season, all being under supervision of paid leaders, most of whom were college students orgraduates.HELENA—State examinations for student nurses seeking professional certificates will be advanced one month this year to permit “badly needed pro-General Miles—for a part of the time during this trip he took part in Cummin's “Indian Congress and Life On the Plain during that show's exhibition at the famous Madison Square Garden—and a year after this trip he dropped dead in front of his tepee on Sept. 22, 1904.In speaking of his death, C. T. Brady, in his book about the Nez Perce war says: “The other day a gray-haired old chief, nodding by the fire, dreamed perhaps of days of daring and deeds of valor, by which, savage though he was, he had written his name on the pages of history, slipped quietly to the ground and fel into his eternal sleep. Peaceful ending for the Indian Xenophon, the Red Napoleon of the West.risiP*lonlt;giaiaUg1t(UI3(1lt;ass
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Thompson Falls Sanders County Independent Ledger
Thompson Falls, Montana, US
Wed, Sep 23, 1942
Page 6
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