Editing Chief Joseph (section)

==Death==
[[File:Chief Joseph Group Photo.png|thumb|upright=1.10|Chief Joseph in a group photo the year before his death]]
An indomitable voice of conscience for the West, still in exile from his homeland, Chief Joseph died on September 21, 1904, according to his doctor, "of a broken heart".<ref>{{cite book |author=Nerburn, Kent |title=Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perc |location=New York and San Francisco |publisher=[[HarperSanFrancisco]] |date=2005 }}</ref><ref name=catscjgrv>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=P2FWAAAAIBAJ&pg=2843%2C1314113 |newspaper=Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, Washington |last=Walter |first=Jess |title=Congress asked to save Chief Joseph's grave |date=July 4, 1991 |page=A1 }}</ref><ref name="NYT obit">{{cite news |title="The Napoleon of Indians," Whom Gen. Miles Finally Subdued |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1904/09/24/archives/chief-joseph-dead-the-napoleon-of-indians-whom-gen-miles-finally.html |access-date=December 6, 2017 |work=The New York Times |date=September 24, 1904 |quote=The end came as the chief was sitting by his campfire on the Colville Reservation. Suddenly he toppled over to the ground, and before aid reached him his heart had ceased to beat. |archive-date=June 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612210939/https://www.nytimes.com/1904/09/24/archives/chief-joseph-dead-the-napoleon-of-indians-whom-gen-miles-finally.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Meany and Curtis helped Joseph's family bury their chief near the village of [[Nespelem, Washington]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Egan, Timothy |title=Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis |url=https://archive.org/details/shortnightsofsha0000egan |url-access=registration |location=New York City |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |date=2012 }}</ref> where many of his tribe's members still live.<ref name=catscjgrv/>