Chief Joseph
At a glance:
- Series: Magill’s Guide to Military History
- Categories: Military History
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Frontier, Pioneers, Asylum, Refugees
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1816-1855, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History
Article abstract: Military significance: In an attempt to find refuge in Canada, Chief Joseph led six hundred Nez Perce on a seventeen-hundred-mile march from Oregon, defeating U.S. military forces along the way and surrendering only fifty miles from freedom.
Young Joseph was in his mid-thirties when he became chief of the Nez Perce. In the face of pressure from white settlers, Chief Joseph, opposed to war, reluctantly agreed to move his people to the Lapwai Reservation in Idaho. In June, 1877, before the move was completed, renegade Nez Perce warriors killed...
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