What happened at the Nez Perce war?
The conflict, fought between June and October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed “non-treaty Indians,” to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho. Who won the Nez Perce war? On October 5, 1877, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph…