I Will Fight No More Forever: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A feature film with the title I Will Fight No More Forever. It consists of four (4) reels of color 16mm acetate and polyester films with optical sound. Based on a true story, the film chronicles the experiences of Chief Joseph (Ned Romero), a leader of the indigenous Nez Perce band whose resistance to the US government's attempts to forcibly remove them from their land and relocate them to a reservation catches the attention of General Oliver O. Howard (James Whitmore).

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1975
• Directed by: Richard T. Heffron, American, 1930 - 2007
• Subject of: Nez Perce Tribe
• Subject of: Chief Joseph, 1840 - 1904
• Subject of: Oliver Otis Howard, American, 1830 - 1909
• Subject of: Charles Erskine Scott Wood, American, 1852 - 1944
• Subject of: James Whitmore, American, 1921 - 2009
• Subject of: Sam Elliott, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Ned Romero, American, 1926 - 2017
• Type: sound films
• Type: color films (visual works)
• Type: feature films
• Type: 16mm (photographic film size)
• Medium: (a) acetate film and polyester film,
• Medium: (b-d) acetate film
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 1): 26 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 950 Feet
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 2): 26 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 950 Feet
• Dimensions: Duration (Reel 3): 22 Minutes
• Dimensions: Length (Film): 775 Feet
• Place used: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Idaho, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Oregon, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Salmon River, Idaho, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: American West
• Topic: Film
• Topic: Resistance
• Topic: U.S. History, 1865-1921
• Topic: Western films
• Object number: 2017.55.107.1a-d
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Transferred from the DC Public Library
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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