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Unpublished letters and diaries by eyewitnesses, interviews with
decedents, an intimate knowledge of the country enrich this
narrative of the heroic Nez Perce Indian War waged in 1877 against
relocation. The result is a well documented chronicle offering new
perspective on prewar Indian-white relations, United States
government pressures and nontreaty rebellions, the five battles,
subjection and surrender, and on the character of the leaders on
both sides. "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more
forever," Chief Joseph said in surrender. But as a guardian and
protector of his people he at last succeeded in bringing back the
remaining members of his tribe to their beloved valley. Calling
Professor Beal's book, "definitive, but not final," Herman J.
Deutsch, professor emeritus of American history at Washington State
University, writes in the foreword: "Joseph and his band remain an
example and inspiration to those who today are seeking recognition
as human beings, equal in the sight of God and therefore entitled
to like status among men. Those who recognize that such aspirations
must not for long remain unfulfilled can derive from Nez Perce
history examples of the consequences of policies conceived in
ignorance and colored with disdain of the culture and way of life
of minority peoples. ...A world surfeited with deceptive success
stories can ill afford to forget a people and their leader who
attained their true moral stature as they were facing their doom."
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