The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-12-13
SECTION Two

They come me, they say: we want fight white man.
I say: NO, white man too many They say: Joseph,
you old woman you afraid
Lee" said Joseph. rising on his knees g savage
fire lighting his eyes. mo call Joseph old
man.. no man caH Joseph coward
They call me old woman. L say: We fight That
night / put on war bonnet. dance
when white say Joseph Kiln woman you say
him, Lee, he tell lie One night they bring white wo-
man my Jepee moe her PUT olaltA5I elo Inoeca-
sin on white woman make her look an same mum
woman. I send her back home with my squaw night
t 55sT; say my t'ums No. fight woman fight sol
The mark Of the school book and the Bible had now
left Joseph he recalled the broken faith OF the
white man and the words Of MS dying father; Our
people live here this valley long time White man
want take Wallowa you fight"
First fight White Bird Creek went on Joseph
the OF the Indian being headline his story
white men close Mount Idaho Lieutenant Perry come
from Fort Lapwai- He have ninety men on horse
salmon river. side OF river. take long see
geld glass; look say my brother Ouicut: white
man sodiers-look' Onicut take long see White Bird
5tS Ing w. @ - s T ,-- W W. a,b- " W.
shoot white horse scared
''Bimeby scout come in. Scout say 100 white
I leave village behind bring sQuaw hold horses.
take all my ticuns. I behind rocks on hin
tell Onieut and White Bird stay horse drive sol
diers me. Soldiers come We shoot; first man we XIII
blow bugle. We shoot officers. White man soldier
horse scared. Soldiers come behind rocks They
come in line four by four Easy marx We let sol
diers come close. We shoot. Olicut and White Bird
20 behind rocks with tilicums drive soldiers back
0icut and white Bird shoot Soldiers bad scared we
whip white soldier. They go back That day take
thirty scadp MY tnicums wear soldier coats. make
more fight I kin Lieutenant Raines and ten
soldier
'I take my. people across river. Smoke say: Gen
eraI Howard come 1000 men,. I walt week. How
ard come I lead Howard army Clearwater river so
get eat soldiers, for horse This time
Howard have too many soldiers. He Injun
We Kill heap Howard men. Howard Kill twenty-three
Nez Perces, wound forty.
II cross river hold powwow. say my people:
we kill forty men. Howard bring 400. I say my peo-
pie: We leave this country: go King George
country British CoIumbia), We find home
I lead my people across LOl0 trail, Rocky
! fight take twenty scout. make scout fight heap
far back. take all my people around fort Ny
twenty scout follow
This" interrupted the major was q nice BIT Of
strategy. heard General Miles speak Of Il. You
Joseph simply out-generaled the whites all the way
through They couldn't catch him despite
had fun blood Indian scouts It's no trouble.
simply do up all their traps skins, put
squaws and pappooses on top Of them, then tie the
packs to ponies tails and let the ponies tow across the
whole business"
go up Bitter Root river leave one scout behind He
get house He see white man soldier pass White
soldier think him Nez Perces; he think him
Flathead ln1un MY scout count WflIe man soleler.
ride $50 mile; he tell me General Gibbon follow
eiibEoH take my village 1 take village hack Ay
squaw all light thar way say my people we ne
big enough fight white man bullet White man TOO
many we hgnI Mhlle man poly- w ,-ae I eo i5
pony We cross Rocky mountain two times. Howard
follow Gibbon follow
yes and you bet ne them both out" put in
the major Howard wanted 10 qulL- Joseph couIo
march faster always kept two marches
ahead. If Miles hadn't heard he was coming Joseph
! never would have been caught You know the geo
/ graphy Of the country. You see, Joseph was going
/ northwest. Miles. who located at Fort Keough
on the Yellowstone river, heard Joseph was coming
So guided by Piegan Jack. old half-breed scout
Miles marched northwest and met Joseph uneEpect-
/ edlv to the Nez PeFces in the Bear Paw mountains
/ IN a few days more Joseph would have been beyond
] the Canadian border"
Yes said Joseph, miles catch We have
fight Miles soldier kill my brother Onicut- lose
I heart. I white Rag I meet Miles, Miles say
( he treat me good. give my gun Miles. He say:
Give gun General Howard I No, give YOU
/ my gun Howard catch me. point to sum- L say:
I Il fight white more.
some day" concluded the old Nez Perces CHIEF
| "I believe get WaAoWa"
Copyright, 1903 by Charles n. Crewdson-