The main goal and purpose of the Native American Graduate Student Association is to further the inclusion of American Indian students at the University of Idaho school of graduate studies and law school.

"My son, my body is returning to my mother earth, and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit Chief. When I am gone, think of your country. You are the chief of these people. They look to you to guide them. Always remember that your father never sold his country. You must stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a treaty selling your home. A few years more, and white men will be all around you. They have their eyes on this land. My son, never forget my dying words. This country holds your father's body.
Never sell the bones of your father and your mother." ca. 1870

Tu-eka-kas (Old Joseph)
father of
Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Chief Joseph)

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Thunder coming up over the land from the water) also known as Chief Joseph
and shown below right with Edmond S. Meany and Red Thunder in 1903

Here is Chief Joseph speaking to ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her interpreter James Stuart. Photo taken in 1889, thirteen years prior to the photo with Red Thunder.