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
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
Wallowa River
…States. It drains a valley on the Columbia Plateau in the northeast corner of the state north of Wallowa Mountains. The Wallowa Valley was home to Chief Joseph's band of the Nez Perce Tribe. Chief Joseph asked the first white settlers to leave when they arrived in 1871. The U.S. government expelled the tribe…
Portrait by Edward S. Curtis, 1903
An 1889 photograph of Joseph speaking to ethnologist Alice Cunningham Fletcher and her interpreter James Stuart