Howard and Miles had promised Joseph during…

1877 CE

Howard and Miles had promised Joseph during the surrender negotiations that the Nez Perce would be allowed to return to their reservation in Idaho.

However, the commanding general of the Army, William Tecumseh Sherman, overrules them and directs that they not be allowed to return to the reservation.

"I believed General Miles, or I never would have surrendered," Chief Joseph will say afterward.

Miles marches his captives two hundred and sixty-five miles to the Tongue River Cantonment in southeast Montana Territory, where they arrive on October 23, 1877, and are held until October 31, when the able-bodied warriors are marched out to Fort Buford, at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers.

On November 1, the ill, wounded, and women and children set out for Fort Buford in fourteen Mackinaw boats.

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Fort Keogh Custer Montana United States View →

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Chief Joseph View → Nelson A. Miles View → Oliver Otis Howard View → Sitting Bull View → William Tecumseh Sherman View →

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Nez Perce (Amerind tribe) View → Palus, or Palouse (Amerind tribe) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Oregon, State of (U.S.A.) View → Idaho, Territory of (U.S.A.) View → Montana, Territory of (U.S.A.) View →

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Indian Wars in Upper North America View → America's “Gilded Age;” 1876 through 1887 View → Nez Perce War View → Bear Paw, Battle of View → White Bird Canyon, Battle of View → Big Hole, Battle of the View →

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