Worlds Largest Indian Arrowhead

Here stands The worlds largest Indian Arrowhead by Lowery made from Stones collected from the reservation grounds,buried at the foot of the ArrowHead is the Cremated Ashes of Dr. James N Lowery Sr. And his wife Letha Betty Sledge Lowery, in the picture in the center is of the Chief Joseph (1840-1904), Joseph the leader of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce tribe, the most powerful in the NorthWest and one of the most Friendly to the Whites. Chief Joseph  became famous in 1877 for leading his people on a Epic flight across the Rocky Mountains. As a young boy Joseph came to be called (In-Mut-Too-Yah-Lat-Lat) or Rolling Thunder in the mountians, Born in NorthEastern Oregon, was forced to retreat His tribe (200-300 wariors and their Families) and fled on a long trek to Canada on that Journey some 1,700 miles, Chief Joseph outmaneuvered the enemy becoming tired and hungry, chose to purchase Supplies and Food (concern for the women and children of the tribe) rather than steal them from Cowboys and Farmers. Where on (Oct. 5th,1877) where captured just 40 Miles shy of Canadas border in the Bear Paw Mountains, to Gen. Nelson A. Miles. Where the Famous speech came (Hear me, My Chiefs; My heart is Sick and Sad. From Where the Sun Now Stands, I will fight no more forever.) "I am tired of fighting," he said. "Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say, 'Yes' or 'No.' He who led the young men.. Olikut is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead." Chief Joseph and his people were escorted, first to Kansas, and then to what is present-day Oklahoma. 1885, Joseph and others were allowed to return to the Pacific Northwest, but it was far from perfect, many of his people had already perished, either from war or disease. Chief Joseph did not live to see again the land he'd known as a child and young warrior. He died on September 21, 1904, and was buried in the Colville Indian Cemetery on the Colville Reservation in the state of Washington.