This week I reviewed the website http://www.42explore2.com/native3.htm.   According to information found on the site, developers Annette Lamb and Larry Johnson created the site in 1999 in an effort to give teachers and students a site they can go to and find multiple sources of information regarding many different topics all in one place.  The idea is that there are at least four links to each topic and sometimes more in case one or more of them are not working.

The top five sites that    4 2 explore offers links to are yahoo.com, ancestry.com, meetup.com, vista.ir and squidoo.com.  (Johnson, 1999)

The site itself is geared toward teachers and students for K-12 and could definitely be used to either teach an informative class, or from the student’s perspective, write a good quality research paper.  

I took a closer look at the biography links provided regarding Chief Joseph of the Nez Pierce.  I have done a small amount of research in the past on Chief Joseph and the information I received from the link on

4 2 explore is some that I didn’t know before.  I learned that Chief Joseph actually converted to Christianity and was an active supporter of the long standing peace with whites before gold was discovered and the government took back almost 6 million acres of land and restricted the Nez Pierce to the reservation in Idaho.  (New Perspectives on The West, 2001)  Chief Joseph actually denounced the US and destroyed the US Flag and his bible and refused to move his band and sign the treaty with the US Government that would make the new boundaries of the reservation official.  I knew that Chief Joseph and his people were relocated to a reservation in Washington where he died of, according to the physician on the reservation, a broken heart. (Powerful People, n.d.)

There is quite a bit more to learn about Chief Joseph via 4 2 explore and I’d definitely recommend at least reviewing the site and seeing what is available on topics such as Native Americans.