This narative of Chicf Joseph's is profoundly touching; a very Iiad of tragedy, of dignificed and hopeless sorrow; and it stands supported by the official records of the Iudian Bureau.

"After the arrival of Joseph and his band in Indian Territory, the bad effeet of their location at Fort Leavenworth manifested itself in the prostration by sickness at one time of two hundred and sixty in a few moths' in the death of 'more than one-quarter of the entire number.’"^[1]

"It will be borne in mind that Joseph has never made a out of the four hundred and ten; and 'with treaty with the United States, and that he has never surrendered to the Government the lands he claimed to own in Idaho, ** Joseph aud his followers have shown themselves to be brave men and skilful soldiers, who, with one exception, have ab- served the rules of civilized warfare. * These Indians were encroached upon by white settlers, on soil they belicved to be their own, and when these encroachments became intolerable, compelled in their own estimation to take up they arms."^[2]

Chief Joseph and a remnant of his band are still in Indian were Territory, waiting anxiously the result of the movement now being made by the Ponca chief, Standing Bear, and his friends and legal advisers, to obtain from the Supreme Court a decision which will extend the protection of the civil law to every Indian in the country

Of the remainder of the Nez Percés (those who are on the Lapwai Reservation), the report of the Indian Bureau for 1879 is that they "support themselves entircly without subsistence from the Goverument; procure of their own accord, and at

their own cxpensc, wagons, harness, and other farming implements beyond the amount furnished by the Government under