Blog #13

The author of I Will Fight No More Forever is Chief Joseph. Chief Joseph was the chief of a Native American tribe called the Nez Perce found in the Wallowa Valley in Oregon (). In this story, Chief Joseph is talking about all the suffering his people have gone through and how he is done fighting (). The reason why The Nez Perce were fighting is that they were ordered by the United States off their land but they refused to go (). They decided that they would travel over 1000 miles and live in Canada, but unfortunately they had to battle United States troops all the way and with only 4o miles left of their journey, they were defeated (). One thing that I really liked about this story is how straight forward Chief Joseph is with what is happening. With most of the stories we are forced to read for english they are long and confusing, but with this one and is short and straight to the point. For example, he says "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" (). In this little quote Chieft Joseph is talking about the situation his people are in and how it is not a good one. He is very straight forward with what is happening to his people and that is the way I like my english stories to be. A difference in the writings from Chief Joseph and Emerson and Thoreau is the lack of detail used by Chief Joseph. I think that Emerson and Thoreau use quite a bit of detail in their stories and as I have previously mentioned, Chief Joseph is just straight forward. Another differnece in the writings of Chief Joseph and those of Emerson and Thoreau is that in most of the writings from them contain something about nature and Chief Joseph's story did not mention anything about nature.