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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 10pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span>Rich
Wandschneider is Director of a special library in Joseph, Oregon, that honors Alvin
M. Josephy as a<span style="color:white"> </span><span style="color:black">historian of and advocate for American Indians, in
addition to his many other remarkable accomplishments.<span> </span>Please download and read his latest article, “</span>The
Alvin M. and Betty Josephy Library of Western History and Culture,” here: <a href="https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol23/iss3/10/" style="color:blue;text-decoration:underline">https://commons.pacificu.edu/olaq/vol23/iss3/10/</a>.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From Rich’s
article, “Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce died in exile on the Colville Indian
Reservation in Washington State in 1904, after being rebuffed on two trips to
Wallowa County, Oregon, to convince the local citizenry to allow him to buy
land. He asked to be allowed to live out his days in the “land of winding
waters” that held the bones of his father and his people. Denied, he lived out
his days on the Colville, befriended by University of Washington professor
Edmond Meany, and famously photographed by Meany’s friend, Edward Sheriff Curtis.
A few short years after that Wallowa visit, living in a tipi on the Colville
Reservation, Chief Joseph—Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-<span>kekt</span>—“died
of a broken heart.” The New York Sun announced that “the most famous Indian in
America” was gone.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In 1965,
Alvin M. Josephy Jr.’s Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
brought Joseph and the Nez Perce back to national attention. While working on
that book, <span>Josephy</span> and his family fell in
love with the Wallowa Country and bought a small ranch. Throughout his long
working career, boxes of books and research material would be packed and
shipped from the Josephy home in Greenwich, Connecticut to Joseph, Oregon, and
then back the other way. The Josephy Library is based on material from those
home libraries in Greenwich and Joseph, with special attention to <span>Josephy’s</span> own writings and to the history and
culture of Indians and the West.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The library
is housed in the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture on Main Street in the town
of Joseph (“Joseph” and “<span>Josephy</span>” are only
accidentally and serendipitously related). We tell the Nez Perce story—and
other stories of Indian and Western history—with books and journals, guest
speakers, blog posts, private conversations and presentations to local
students, residents, guests, and groups from across the world.”<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Please read
on.<span> </span>You won’t be disappointed.<span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Thank you,<br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Charles Wood<br></span></font></div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">OLA Communications<br></span></font><br></div>