This great Chief's Indian name Heinmot'tooyalakekt meant "Thunder Traveling to High Places Then Returning". He received it from his Father who considered thunder he heard shortly after his son's birth to be an omen from the Great Spirit. As an omen it had validity.
Joseph, as he became known to settlers and historians, led his people in a revolt against mandatory resettlement in 1877. He was never a war chief; he was a civic chief but...