Map showing the Nez Perce Indian Reservns [sic] and the Wallowa Valley, (1876)

Map showing the Nez Perce Indian Reservns [sic] and the Wallowa Valley, (1876)

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1 map : col ; 24 x 27 cm.<br>Maps show Nez Perce Reservation under Treaty of 1855, 1865, and the Wallowa Valley claimed by Young Joseph<br>Scanned from: Annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior 1876 <br>In 1855, The Nez Perce tribes signed a Treaty at Camp Stevens in Oregon which limited their tribal lands to those areas shown in color on this map. <br>In 1863, a new Treaty was negotiated, restricting Nez Perce lands even further, to the area shown in blue on this map. This Treaty was a source of great disagreement among the Nez Perce- many opposed it, and many Chiefs refused to sign it. These non-signers would provide the basis for further difficulties, as many Nez Perce did not consider themselves bound by the Treaty, though the American government considered them to be so. The Indian argument was convincing enough that in 1873 President Grant restored to the Nez Perce the territory shown in yellow in addition to their pre-existing reservation (blue). The government soon revoked its own proclamation, however, and the Indians were ordered off the lands. The Indians were given thirty days to depart, but confrontations between impatient settlers and unhappy evictees grew to conflicts, and the Nez Perce War began in 1877.

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1876

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Is part of Annual report of the Board of Indian Commissioners to the Secretary of the Interior 1876

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WSU 470<br>E93 .U53 8th, 1876

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