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Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)

Chief Joseph (Hinmatóowyalahtqʼit)

1840 CE1904 CE · Wallowa (Nez Perce)

Hinmatoowyalahtqit, known as Chief Joseph, was a leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) in the Pacific Northwest. In 1877, resisting forced removal to a reservation, he and other leaders guided several hundred people on a fighting retreat of some 1,500 miles toward Canada. Trapped in the Bear Paw Mountains of Montana, he surrendered with a speech often quoted for the words 'I will fight no more forever.' He spent his remaining years in exile from the Wallowa Valley and died in 1904.

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