Research about Chief Joseph

-Born on March 3, 1840.
-Born in the Wallowa Valley in northeastern Oregon in 1840.
-Named "Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain".
-Called "Young" Joseph when his father was alive.
-Active supporter of tribal peaces with the whites.
-Chief of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce.
-Led 800 Nez Perce toward freedom at the Canadian border with other Nez Perce chiefs.
- Went to Washington D.C. to plead for his people to return to the Pacific Northeast to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1879. Was granted in 1885.
-Died September 21,1904.