by Rich Wandschneider | Apr 16, 2015 | Butch Otter, Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph statue, Idaho governor, Nez Perce, Oregon state statues, Register Guard
Idaho Governor Butch Otter is dead wrong in quibbling over Chief Joseph’s ties to Oregon and Idaho and questioning Oregonians’ choice of him for a Washington D.C. monument.Joseph was the leader of a band of Nez Perce Indians that lived for millennia in the valleys and...
by Rich Wandschneider | Aug 15, 2012 | Alvin Josephy, Chief Joseph, Chief Joseph statue, Christy Walton, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Georgia Bunn, Nez Perce, Nez Perce Fisheries, Valley Bronze foundry
We have a new statue of Chief Young Joseph, or Young Chief Joseph as he is now mostly called, on Main Street in our town of Joseph—the town is named after him of course. It’s all irony, as he was of course hounded out of here in the War of 1877, and not allowed to...
