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Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a guy of future. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil Warfare, the Union Army basic was entrusted with the era's most important task: helping millions of former slaves claim the protection under the law of individuals. He was energized by the fact that abolition and Reconstruction, the country's great problems for liberty and equality, were God's arrange for himself and the nation. But as the nation's politics curdled in the 1870s, Standard Howard exiled himself from Washington, DC, rejoined the army, and was directed across the continent to control forces in the Pacific Northwest. Shattered by Reconstruction's collapse, he assumed a new quest: forcing Native Americans to become Religious farmers on government reservations. Howard's ideas for redemption in the Western ran headlong into the resistance of Main Joseph, a young Nez Perce leader in northeastern Oregon who refused to leave his ancestral land. Claiming equal protection under the law for Native Americans, Joseph was driven to find his way to the center of American electric power and convince the government to acknowledge his people's humanity and capacity for citizenship.
