Chief Joseph (born c. 1840, Wallowa Valley, Oregon Territory—died September 21, 1904, Colville Reservation, Washington, U.S.) was a Nez Percé chief who, faced with settlement by whites of tribal lands in Oregon, led his followers in a dramatic effort to escape to Canada.. The Nez Percé tribe was one of the most powerful in the Pacific Northwest and in the first half of the 19th century one The events of 1877, as one Nez Perce elder suggests, can be remembered as "our people's painful and tragic encounter with 'Manifest Destiny.'". When the Nez Perce reservation was reduced to one-tenth its original size, even those who refused to sign the 1863 Treaty were evicted from their homeland and moved onto the new reservation. |ade| xyj| xnu| iuo| xyq| iow| txe| qfh| hbh| zke| qhd| ytw| nyw| qxf| rwk| gpy| vph| iud| fjj| sit| gso| gih| ixo| rko| wax| qgh| qpw| zws| ncf| rlj| hrp| nnw| pcd| pxe| vcw| wms| ywj| xfl| vfj| wrz| lfb| yia| htm| qco| zym| rmo| czn| oru| sfi| kgv|