The Nez Perce Chief Who Refused To Surrender 40 Miles From Canada — Then Slipped Past The Army And Escaped
Joseph, dealing with the people still trapped in the camp — the wounded, the children, the elderly, the people who physically could not move any farther — decided to accept.
He would end the fighting.
The decision was not made easily or gladly.
It was made because the people in his immediate care were suffering and dying, and because he understood that accepting the terms was the only way to stop that.
White Bird’s response was different.
He had spent seventy-some years watching what the United States government promised and what it delivered.
He had watched the 1855 treaty give way to the 1863 steal treaty.
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