USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Chief Joseph (1840-1904) was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce Tribe, who became famous in 1877 for leading his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Chief Joseph (c 1840-1904). Chief Joseph was a headman of one of the Nez Perce Wallowa bands that were forcibly removed from their homeland in 1877. Known as Joseph the younger, his father had been baptized by Rev. Henry Harmon Spalding in 1838.

Detailed explanation-4: -By the time Chief Joseph surrendered, more than 200 of his followers had died. Although he had negotiated a safe return home for his people, the Nez Percé instead were taken to eastern Kansas and then to a reservation in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma).

Detailed explanation-5: -Nez Perce War Chief Joseph knew his small tribe of 800 people and 200 warriors were no match for the United States army. In order to save his people he began a retreat. He hoped to make it to Canada where he would meet up with the Sioux tribe of Sitting Bull. The retreat of Chief Joseph is called the Nez Perce War.