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Chef Joseph
The name of Chef Joseph (1840 - 1904) is among the people of In-mu-too-yah-lat-lat. (lightning falling from water to ground)Chief Jozef has shown great resistance with his tribe against the difficult practice of the federal government to place them in camps. Two missionary Levis and Clark, who came to the region, told the indigenous that they could live with the whites. Jozef spent most of his childhood nearing the missionaries who were trying to spread Christianity.
Jozef, the father of chief Jozef in 1855, signed an agreement with the federal government to keep his people in the area reserved for them, and in 1863 he signed another agreement. But the tribe never accepted this agreement.
After this second agreement (an unapproved and unaccepted agreement), son Jozef came to chief. (1877) The months passed with war and difficulties. Most of the people were sent to concentration camps in Oklahoma by the Federal Government. Most of the outcasts died of starvation and malaria.
Jozef tried everything to get back to his own country. In 1885, he was sent to Washington again with many of his tribe members. In his later years, like many Indian chiefs, he died in exile from his home country. In 1879, all American citizens were given equal rights. But Jozef never saw his land again. According to the camp doctor, he died of sorrow.