That All People May be One People, Send Rain to Wash the Face of the Earth
Author | : Joseph (Nez Percé Chief) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1995 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015041916894 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "What I have to say will come from my heart, and I will speak with a straight tongue. Ah-cum-kin-i-ma-me-hut (the Great Spirit) is looking at me and will hear me." Thus began Nez Perce Chief In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, Thunder-Traveling-Over-the-Mountains, as he addressed a group of interviewers during an 1879 trip to washington D.C. Two years after the extraordinary saga of the Nez Perce War, In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat, known to most as Chief Joseph, was, with his fellow survivors of the war, a prisoner. Yet, with great dignity, clarity and eloquence, he spoke of his life, of promises made and broken, of humankind's relationship to the earth, and of the oneness of all peoples."--Page 4 of cover.