Native American Speeches 285-287

The French who first encountered the Chute-pa-lu referred to them as the Nez Perce, a name that refers to the custom of piercing of the nose for personal adornment.

...when Chief Joseph surrendered to the U.S. Army...Joshep was told that after the surrender, his people would be returned to their homeland, but that promise was not __________.

The account presented here is from Henry Stuart Turrill, who ___________negotiations as a young soldier.

An oral tradition is a work, or __________, an idea, or a custom that is passed by word of mouth from generation to generation.

In 1877, Chief Joseph was preparing to move with his people to a __________ in Idaho when he learned of an attack against white settlers by three Native Americans.

Good words do not last _______ unless they amount to something.

Select Idaho, the former Native American land

Good words will not give me back my ...

It was during this earlier round of negotiations that Cochise first realized the army planned to relocate the Chiricahua Apache to the Tularosa _____________ in New Mexico.

select area of New Mexico