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I Will Fight No More Forever is a 1975 made-for-television Western film starring James Whitmore as General Oliver O. Howard and Ned Romero as Chief Joseph. It is a dramatization of Chief Joseph's resistance to the U.S. government's forcible removal of his Nez Perce Indian tribe to a reservation in Idaho .
Original Nez Perce territory (green) and the reduced reservation of 1863 (brown) Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or hinmatóowyalahtqĚ“it in Americanist orthography; March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest ...
I Will Fight No More... Forever is a two-person wargame in which one player controls Nez Perce forces and the other controls elements of the U.S. Army. The game includes two maps, a strategic hex grid map scaled at 20 miles (32 km), and a tactical map scaled at 25 yards (23 m) per hex. [2]
I Will Fight No More Forever (1975, TV Movie) as Chief Joseph; Bigfoot and Wildboy as Ranger Lucas (1977) The Last of the Mohicans (1977, TV Movie) as Chingachgook; The Deerslayer (1978, TV Movie) as Chingachgook; Sultan and the Rock Star (1980, TV Movie) as Big Joe Ironwood; Gone to Texas (1986, TV Movie) as Chief John Jolley; House IV (1992 ...
I Will Fight No More Forever: Richard T. Heffron: Ned Romero, Sam Elliott, James Whitmore: United States: Biographical Western Inn of the Damned: Terry Bourke: Judith Anderson, Alex Cord, Michael Craig: Australia: Horror Western: The Last Day: Vincent McEveety
It was at the final surrender of the Nez Perce when Chief Joseph gave his famous "I Will Fight No More Forever" speech, which was translated by the interpreter Arthur Chapman. An 1877 New York Times editorial discussing the conflict stated, "On our part, the war was in its origin and motive nothing short of a gigantic blunder and a crime". [4] [5]
Richard T. Heffron (October 6, 1930 – August 27, 2007) was an American film director.. He worked on many television series such as The Rockford Files and films including I Will Fight No More Forever (1975), Futureworld (1976), [1] Foolin' Around (1980), the 1982 Mike Hammer film I, the Jury, Pancho Barnes (1988), and La révolution française (1989).
It was Wood who transcribed, and perhaps embellished, Chief Joseph's famous speech, which ended with: "My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever." [3] The two men became close friends. He raised his family in Portland at a house on King's Hill near the northeast corner of today's Vista Bridge.