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The Status of Young Joseph and His Band of Nez-Perce Indians Under the Treaties Between the United States and the Nez-Perce Tribe of Indians, and the Indian Title to the Land.
Portland, Oregon: Assistant Adjutant General’s Office, Department of Columbia, 1876. 12mo (7.25” x 4.875”), printed gray wrappers. 49 pp. Pencil number “143” in the upper-right corner of the front wrapper. CONDITION: Very good. A report on the relations of the federal government and the Nez Perce compiled for General Oliver Otis Howard by the Indian Agent in charge of the Nez Perce Agency and issued in the year immediately preceding the forced relocation of the tribe from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley to a much reduced reservation in Idaho. The principled resistance of Chief Joseph to the removal and his subsequent flight with a band of 800 toward Canada would become the stuff of legend. “The history of the tribe and its conflicts with the white settlers and the government are fully set forth. The troubles in the Wallawa Valley and the rights of Young Joseph and his band of Indians are especially and thoroughly examined, beginning with the first attempt of the government to reach an understanding with the tribe concerning the occupancy of the country inhabited by them. It takes in every fact bearing on the question from that date down to the time of the appointment of a Commission to adjust the difficulties between the tribe and the white settlers”—Eberstadt. While well represented in institutional collections, the only copy recorded in the commerce was offered by Eberstadt in 1935. An important account of the foreground to the Nez Perce removal and the Nez Perce War. REFERENCES: Howes M736 (under Montieth) and W626 (under Wood); Eberstadt 103-295.
Item #9659
Price: $3,750.00
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