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...NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. 705 pages. Yale University Press...
Resisting U.S. efforts to move them out of Oregon's Wallowa Valley and resettle them on an Idaho reservation, some 750 Nez Perce men, women and children led by Chief Joseph had staged an incredible 1,700-mile retreat across four states, fighting off 2,000 U.S. troops along the way. Finally, seeking sanctuary in Canada, they were within 35 miles of their goal when they were surrounded, and Chief Joseph decided to surrender. With his surrender, the last major Indian resistance to the encroaching white man in the Northwest was broken...
...this big, splendidly researched history of the Nez Perce, Author Josephy never leaves any doubt about where his sympathies lie. By his colorfully documented account, the Nez Perce (Pierced Nose-a name given them by early French-speaking trappers because some braves wore bits of shell in their noses) were a notably peaceful tribe until provoked into rebellion by avaricious and cruel whites. He also paints the romanticized Indian-fighting army of the Old West as a shiftless and uninspired collection of sad sacks. In any pitched battle, Josephy maintains, Indians proved to be better fighters and better marksmen than...
Author Josephy offers one final, even more disillusioning fact: despite all his bullet nicks and his sadly beautiful words, Chief Joseph was not a warrior at heart. During the Nez Perce war, he left most of the fighting to his subchiefs. He looked after the women, children and a herd of horses...
Outside the hotel in Buenos Aires, an angry crowd chanted, "Death to the tyrant!" Inside, a handsome, dark-haired woman held court for newsmen. She was Isabel Martínez de Perón, 34, third wife of the ex-dictator who, at 70, lives in Spain and insists that he will one day return to Argentina. How was Juan Domingo Perón? asked a reporter. "In excellent health," she replied. And what was she doing back home? "I have come on a mission of peace," smiled Isabel...