Editing Chief Joseph (section)

=== Literary works ===
* Merrill Beal's ''I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War'' (2000) was positively received both regionally and nationally.<ref>{{cite book |publisher=University of Washington Press |title=I Will Fight No More Forever: Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce War |date=2000 |author=Beal, Merrill |asin=B00J4Z7S9I }}</ref>
* Chief Joseph is sympathetically portrayed in [[Henry Wilson Allen|Will Henry]]'s novel of the Nez Perce War, ''From Where the Sun Now Stands'' (1959). The book won the 1960 [[Western Writers of America]] [[Spur Award for Best Novel of the West]].
* [[Helen Hunt Jackson]] recorded one early Oregon settler's tale of her encounter with Joseph in her ''Glimpses of California and the Missions'' (1902):
[[File:Wall quote from Chief Joseph.jpg|thumb|upright=1.10|A wall-mounted quote by Chief Joseph in [[The American Adventure (Epcot)|The American Adventure]] in the World Showcase pavilion of [[Walt Disney World Resort|Walt Disney World]]'s [[Epcot]]]]

{{quote|Why I got lost once, an' I came right on Chief Joseph's camp before I knowed it ... 't was night, 'n' I was kind o' creepin' along cautious, an' the first thing I knew there was an Injun had me on each side, an' they jest marched me up to Jo's tent, to know what they should do with me ...

Well; 'n' they gave me all I could eat, 'n' a guide to show me my way, next day, 'n' I could n't make Jo nor any of 'em take one cent. I had a kind o' comforter o' red yarn, I wore rund my neck; an' at last I got Jo to take that, jest as a kind o' momento.<ref name=Three>{{cite book |author=Jackson, Helen Hunt |author-link=Helen Hunt Jackson |title=Glimpses of California and the Missions |location=Boston |publisher=[[Little, Brown & Company]] |date=1923 }}</ref>}}

*In the children's fiction book, ''[[Thunder Rolling in the Mountains]]'', by [[Newbery Medal|Newbery medalist]] [[Scott O'Dell]] and Elizabeth Hall, the story of Chief Joseph is told by Joseph's daughter, Sound of Running Feet.
*The saga of Chief Joseph is depicted in [[Robert Penn Warren]]'s poem "Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce" (1982).
*Chief Joseph appears in ''[[The Secret History of Twin Peaks]]'' by [[Mark Frost]]. In his speech, Chief Joseph says that he visited "the place known to our [his tribe's] ancestors, seldom visited, the place of smoke by the great falls and twin mountains, to seek the aid of the Great Spirit Chief in this time of need" in a speech he gives to his people before the retreat, in 1877.