Chief Joseph
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Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific
Portrait by Edward S. Curtis, 1903
An 1889 photograph of Joseph speaking to ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her interpreter James Stuart
Chief Joseph and family, c. 1880
Oliver O. Howard and Chief Joseph (1904)
Wallowa River
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The Wallowa River is a tributary of the Grande Ronde River, approximately 55 miles long, in northeastern Oregon in the United States. It drains a valley on the Columbia Plateau in the northeast corner
Chief Joseph
…the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory. A series of violent encounters with white settlers in the spring…
Wallowa River at Wallowa, Oregon