WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
WESTWARD EXPANSION
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Question
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Sitting Bull
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Chief Joseph
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Geronimo
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Crazy Horse
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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: -On October 5, 1877, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph formally surrendered his forces to General Nelson A. Miles and General Oliver Otis Howard at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana Territory. This effectively ended the Nez Perce War of 1877.
Detailed explanation-3: -The non-treaty bands of nimíipuu (Nez Perce) were separated after Bear Paw, with some being sent to Indian Territory in Oklahoma, and others escaping to Canada.
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.