Stan Hoggatt recently released his book "Ni Mii Puu Traverse Yellowstone Plateau," about the life and story of Chief Joseph and the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) Tribe. Hoggatt, a Billings resident, has been ...
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The shocking true story of Chief Joseph & the Nez Perce War

The Nez Perce War erupted in 1877 after decades of broken treaties, stolen land, and confrontations between settlers and the Nez Perce people. At the center of this struggle was Chief Joseph, a leader ...
On Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, 40 miles south of Canada. Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain was born in 1840 in the ...
After the Battle of the Bear Paw, few outside the white community in the Pacific Northwest had anything bad to say about Nez Perce Chief Joseph. He surrendered with eloquence and dignity, and he kept ...
JOSEPH — Under the watchful eye of Chief Joseph Mountain still pristine with snow, stories of the nimiipuu (or Nez Perce people) are being shared through vibrant visual art in the surroundings of ...
The dreamers -- A willing exile -- New beginnings -- Quite good friends -- Winding waters -- The wilderness of American power -- Adonis in blue -- Wind blowing -- A sharp-sighted heart -- Aloft -- ...
One of the most noted captures of American Indians by the U.S. Army in Western history has been almost completely retraced for a third time by club members of Idaho's Appaloosa Horse Club. This year's ...
Gurney, George, "Olin Levi Warner (1844-1896): A Catalogue Raisonne of his Sculpture and Graphic Works," Ph.D., University of Delaware, 1978, pgs. 684-691. Tolles ...