Selling Your Father's Bones
By Brian Schofield
Published by Harper Press
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The Nez Perce were forced from their homeland by the great nineteenth-century wave of settlement from the American east.
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Review
Selling Your Father's Bones
In the summer of 1877, around seven hundred members of the Nez Perce Native American tribe set out on an epic 1,700-mile journey through the American West. Forced from their homeland by the great nineteenth-century wave of settlement from the east, the Nez Perce passed through mountains, forests, badlands and prairies and had to fight battles and skirmishes with the pursuing United States Army as they raced towards the Canadian border.
Schofield retraces this remarkable exodus, telling not only the story of the tribe’s fight for survival, but the also the destructive legacy of a westward migration initially predicated on patriotism and religios zeal.
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