The Task

Your task is to create a Nez Perce journal for you to use as you escape to Canada.  It will include a map, a timeline, facts about places along the route, and information necessary for you to outrun the US Army.  Be sure to label places where the Nez Perce Trail and the Lewis and Clark Trail intersect. Listed in the handbook should also be will be three causes of the Nez Perce War,  identify six major figures from the war and  describe the events that occurred at Big Hole, Montana and Snake Creek, Montana. Also identify three things that happened as a result of the Nez Perce War. 

Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.

Chief Joseph - Thunder Traveling to the Loftier Mountain Heights - 1877