Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
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Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead
the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general
was entrusted with the era's most crucial task: helping millions of
former slaves claim the rights of citizens. He was energized by the
belief that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great
struggles for liberty and equality, were God's plan for himself and
the nation. To honor his righteous commitment to a new American
freedom, Howard University was named for him.But as the nation's
politics curdled in the 1870s, General Howard exiled himself from
Washington, D.C., rejoined the army, and was sent across the
continent to command forces in the Pacific Northwest. Shattered by
Reconstruction's collapse, he assumed a new mission: forcing Native
Americans to become Christian farmers on government
reservations.Howard's plans for redemption in the West ran headlong
into the resistance of Chief Joseph, a young Nez Perce leader in
northeastern Oregon who refused to leave his ancestral land.
Claiming equal rights for Native Americans, Joseph was determined
to find his way to the center of American power and convince the
government to acknowledge his people's humanity and capacity for
citizenship. Although his words echoed the very ideas about liberty
and equality that Howard had championed during Reconstruction, in
the summer of 1877 the general and his troops ruthlessly pursued
hundreds of Nez Perce families through the stark and unforgiving
Northern Rockies. An odyssey and a tragedy, their devastating war
transfixed the nation and immortalized Chief Joseph as a hero to
generations of Americans.Recreating the Nez Perce War through the
voices of its survivors, Daniel J. Sharfstein's visionary history
of the West casts Howard's turn away from civil rights alongside
the nation's rejection of racial equality and embrace of empire.
The conflict becomes a pivotal struggle over who gets to claim the
American dream: a battle of ideas about the meaning of freedom and
equality, the mechanics of American power, and the limits of what
the government can and should do for its people. The war that
Howard and Joseph fought is one that Americans continue to fight
today.
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