Joseph Garry (1910-1975)

He was born into a chief's family on the reservation, and served six terms as president of the National Congress of American Indians as well as leading the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians. Through the 1950s he traveled constantly, urging tribes to hold their land, build their own economies and educate their young, and he sat on the tribal council for more than two decades, half of them as chairman. When he died in 1975, the National Congress of American Indians credited him with the Indians keeping their land base and said he had invented tribal government.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Trail of the Coeur d'Alenes — 5.7 mi
  Seventy-two paved miles laid over a railbed poisoned by a century of ore trains.
• Cataldo Mission — 17 mi
  The Schitsu'umsh built it, the 1873 reservation line left it outside, and every August 15 they come back.

More markers nearby

• Mullan Road — steps away
• Saint Joseph Mission (St'uts'te'wes) — 2.3 mi
• Submerged Valley — 6.3 mi
• John Mullan (1830-1909) (After the Road) — 6.6 mi