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Original Nez Perce territory (green) and the reduced reservation of 1863 (brown) Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography; March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest ...
Old Chief Joseph Gravesite of Old Joseph, a National Historic Landmark. Tuekakas, (also tiwi-teqis, meaning "senior warrior" [1]) commonly known as Old Chief Joseph or Joseph the Elder (c. 1785–1871), was a Native American leader of the Wallowa Band of the Nez Perce. Old Joseph was one of the first Nez Percé converts to Christianity and a ...
Joseph W. Pfeifer (born 1956) [1] is a retired American firefighter who served with the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). Pfeifer served as First Deputy Commissioner of the FDNY from February 2023 until September 2024, and as Acting Fire Commissioner of the FDNY in August 2024. Prior to his civilian work in the FDNY, Pfeifer was an ...
A former Johnston police chief, who was in his mid 50s, has died following an illness.
Joseph Medicine Crow (October 27, 1913 – April 3, 2016) was a Native American writer, historian and war chief of the Crow Tribe.His writings on Native American history and reservation culture are considered seminal works, but he is best known for his writings and lectures concerning the Battle of the Little Bighorn of 1876.
Chief Joseph and Col. John Gibbon met again on the Big Hole Battle site in 1889. The battle was costly for both sides. Gibbon's force was unfit to pursue the Nez Perce. Gibbon suffered 29 dead (23 soldiers and six civilian volunteers) and 40 wounded (36 soldiers and four civilians) of whom two later died.
A push for death. Published in 1984. The wife of former Fire Chief Joseph (Bum) Farto -- Key West’s most infamous fugitive, who skipped town in 1976 three days after his conviction on drug ...
As a last resort, Joseph was directed to fire a rocket into the house. And from the smoke and rubble came the dying, dragging the dead: the women and children the Taliban had herded into the compound. Joseph sagged against a wall, horrified and sobbing at the sight. For Joseph, it was a classic moral injury.