Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, 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 region of the United States, in the latter half of the 19th century. He succeeded his father tuekakas in the early 1870s.
Portrait by Edward Sheriff Curtis, 1903
An 1889 photograph of Joseph speaking to ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her interpreter James Stuart
Chief Joseph and family, c. 1880
Oliver O. Howard and Chief Joseph (1904)
The Nez Perce are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of the lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest. This region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years.
No Horn on His Head, a Nez Perce man painted in 1832 by George Catlin
Nez Perce baby in cradleboard, 1911
A traditional Nez Perce beaded shirt
Nez Perce encampment, Lapwai, Idaho, ca. 1899