USA HISTORY

FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY ORIGINS OF EARLY PEOPLE IN THE AMERICAS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who led the Nez Perce as they were chased by U.S. soldiers off their land in the Pacific Northwest?
A
Crazy Horse
B
Sitting Bull
C
Chief Joseph
D
Geronimo
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Chief Joseph led his band of Nez Perce during the most tumultuous period in their history, when they were forcibly removed by the United States federal government from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley of northeastern Oregon onto a significantly reduced reservation in the Idaho Territory.

Detailed explanation-2: -White Bird, of the Lamátta band of Nez Perce, managed to elude the Army after the battle and escape with an undetermined number of his band to Sitting Bull’s camp in Canada.

Detailed explanation-3: -"I Will Fight No More Forever” is the name given to the speech made by Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce on October 5, 1877, when the Nez Perce were forced to surrender to Colonel Nelson Miles and General O. O. Howard after the Battle of the Bear Paw Mountains.

Detailed explanation-4: -With 2, 000 soldiers in pursuit, Chief Joseph led a band of about 700 Nez Percé Indians-fewer than 200 of whom were warriors, towards freedom-nearly reaching the Canadian border.

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