2010.54.10100

• ethnicity and race
• north american indian

Poster is printed on white paper. Poster has a white border. On the left side is a black and white portrait of Chief Joseph. He has long hair and is wearing traditional dress and jewelry. On the right side of the poster at the top is a small image of a mountain landscape. Below the image is white text that reads: "Cheif Joseph / (c. 1840-1904) / Our chiefs are killed . . . The old men are / all dead . . . The little children are freezing / to death. My people, some of them have run / away to the hills and have no blankets, no / food. No one knows where they are, perhaps / freezing to death. I want to have time to look / for my children and see how many of them / I can find. Maybe I can find them among / the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. My heart is / sick and sad. From where the sun now stands / I will fight no more forever. / To the Nez Perce trive after his surrender to General Nelson A. Miles / Battle of Bear Paw Mountains, Montana / (September 30-October 5, 1877)". Below this is another block of text that reads: "Chief Joseph was the leader of the Nez Perce Indians. IN 1877, the U.S. / government tried to drive the Nex Perce from their home in the Wallowa / Valley of Oregon to a reservation in Idaho. Instead, Chief Joseph led his tribe / on a retreat toward Canada. The tribe was eventually stopped 40 miles from / the Candain border and sent to a reservation in Oklahoma. Chief Joseph's / tribe was leter relocated to a reservation in Washington state.".