$Chief Joseph's Speech$

Answer on your Blogs:

1)How is the art of rhetoric evident in Chief Joseph’s speech?
It is rhetoric beacause it has traditional rhetoric evident and the Nez Peces were forced to leave thier own motherland.
2)Who is he addressing in this speech?
I would like to say that he is addressing the white people that how they were against Indians and were fetching their land from them and he is addressing the government that how careless it is.
3)Who is he indicting and why?
Chief joseph is indicting the people of his culture who gave up and the white people who fetched their motherland from them.
4)Identify any heroic characteristics?
Heroic characteristics would be" Our fathers gave us many laws, which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good. They told us to treat all people as they treated us; that we should never be the first to break a bargain; that is was a disgrace to tell a lie; that we should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to take another's wife or his property without paying for it." which means that he had certain laws and principles which were heroic.
5)Why is this speech Protest Literature?
I believe that this is a protest literature because the indians fought against the white men for their land but they didnt even thought about indians.they just wanted war.so,indians fighted against the white men to get their motherland back but they failed in their attempt.