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JONES EIVER JOSEPH 



[b. a. e. 



Rev. Peter Jones)." A memorial tablet 

 ^vas placed by bis family in tbe Indian 

 church at the New Credit settlement. 



Ryerson (Ojebway Indians, 18, 1861) 

 describes Jones as "a man of athletic 

 frame, as well as of masculine intellect; a 

 man of clear perception, good judgment, 

 great decision of character; a sound 

 preacher, fervent and powerful in his 

 appeals; very well informed on general 

 subjects, extensively ac(iuainted with 

 men and .things." His wife was an Eng- 

 lish woman, who with 4 sons survived 

 him. His seventh son, Peter E. Jones, 

 who bore his father's name (Kah-ke-wa- 

 quo-na-by), was editor of a periodical. 

 The Indian, published at Hagersville, 

 Out, in 1885-86. 



In addition to the volume of hymns, 

 first printed in 1829, republished in 1836, 

 and in various enlarged editions in later 

 years, Jones translated also into Chip- 

 pewa a volume of Additional Hymns 

 (1861), an Ojibway Spelling Book (1828). 

 Part of the New Testament (1829), The 

 First Book of Moses (1835), and Part of 

 the Discipline of the Wesleyan Methodist 

 Church in Canada (1835). He also wrote 

 the Life and Journals of Kah-ke-wa-(]UO- 

 na-by (Rev. Peter Jones), 1860, and a 

 History of the Ojebway Indians, with 

 Especial Reference to their Conversion to 

 Christianity, 1861. Consult Pilling, lUh- 

 liog. Algonq. Lang., Bull. B. A. E., 1891. 



Jones' River. A village of Christian In- 

 dians in Kingston township, Plymouth 

 CO., Mass., in 1703.— Cotton (1703) in 

 Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., 3d s., ii, 244, 1830. 



Jonondes {Dlionow'dese', 'at the high 

 mountain'). A former Iroquois village 

 belonging to the Bear clan; location un- 

 known, (j. N. B. H. ) 

 Jonondese. — Hale, Iroquois Book of Rites, 120, 

 ls;;3. Jonondeseh. — Ibid., 121. 



Joquizara. A former village, presum- 

 ably Cowtanoan, connected with Dolores 

 mission, San Francisco, Cal. — -Taylor in 

 Cal. Farmer, Oct. 18, 1861. Cf. Josquiganl. 



Jore (probably from Ayd^li^i/I, 'little 

 place,' i. e. , 'little town'; abbreviated 

 Ayd'li). A former Cherokee settlement 

 on lola cr., an upper branch of Little 

 Tennessee r., N. C. (.i. m.) 



lola. — Present map form. Jore. — Bartram, Trav- 

 els, 371, 372, 1792. Joree.— Doc. of 1755 cited bv 

 Royee in 5th Rep. B. A. E., 142, 1887. 



Joseph. The leaderof the Nez Perces in 

 the hostilities of 1877. His mother was a 

 Nez Perce, his father a Cayuse, who re- 

 ceived the name Joseph from his teacher, 

 the missionary Spalding, who was with 

 Dr Whitman and who went to the Idaho 

 country in the late thirties of the 19th 

 century. Chief Joseph's native name was 

 Hinmaton-yalatkit ( liinmnton, 'thunder' ; 

 yalatkit, 'coming from the water up over 

 ithe land.'— Miss McBeth), but both he 

 and his brother Ollicot were often called 



Joseph , as if it were a family name. Joseph 

 was a man of fine presence and impressive 

 features, and was one of the most remark- 

 able Indians within the borders of the 

 Union. The treaty of 1863, by which the 

 whites obtained arightto the Wallowa val- 

 ley, the ancient home of Joseph's band in 

 N. E. Oregon, was not recognized by Jo- 

 seph and the Indians sympathizing with 

 him, who continued to dwell there in 

 spite of collisions between the Indians 

 and the whites, which became more and 

 more frequent. The matter of removing 

 these Indians to the Lapwai res. in Idaho, 

 after the failure of a commission the pre- 

 vious year, was proceeding to a peaceful 

 settlement when outrageous acts on the 

 part of the white settlers caused the Nez 

 Perces to break loose and attack the sct- 



CHIEF JOSEPH 



tlements. War was declared. After sev- 

 eral engagements, in which the whites 

 lost severely, Joseph displayed remarka- 

 able generalship in a retreat worthy to be 

 remembered with that of Xenophon's ten 

 thousand (Mooney in 14th Rep. B. A. E., 

 714, 1896). In spite of the fact that in 

 front of him was Col. Miles, behind Gen. 

 Howard, on his flank Col. Sturgisand his 

 Indian scouts, Joseph brought his little 

 band, incommoded with women and chil- 

 dren, to within 50 miles of the Canadian 

 border, their objective point, when they 

 were cut off by fresh troops in front and 

 forced to surrender conditionally on 

 Oct. 5, 1877. Not only the conduct 

 of the Nez Perces during this retreat of 

 more than 1,000 miles, but also the 

 military and tactical skill displayed by 



