Nez Perce War
Videos
The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the Palouse tribe le
Chiefs Joseph, Looking Glass, and White Bird in the spring of 1877
Gen. Oliver Otis Howard in a Civil War-era photograph.
Nez Perce warriors
Chief Joseph, at Tongue River Cantonment in Montana Territory, taken by John H. Fouch on October 23, the same day the Nez Perce prisoners arrived, three weeks following the surrender.
Chief Joseph
Videos
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
Nez Perce War
…the base of Montana's Bears Paw Mountains only 40 miles (64 km) from the Canada–US border. A large majority of the surviving Nez Perce represented by Chief Joseph of the Wallowa band of Nez Perce, surrendered to Brigadier Generals Oliver Otis Howard and Nelson A. Miles. White Bird, of the Lamátta band of Nez…
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)