Nez Perce Historical Marker - Enterprise, Oregon
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BruceS
N 45° 25.403 W 117° 17.693
11T E 476930 N 5030026
Oregon historical marker located near Enterprise commemorating the Nez Perce in particular the Joseph band.
Waymark Code: WM1YVN
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2007
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Nez Perce
Wallowa Valley,
summer homeland of the Joseph Band Nez Perce, was part of the expansive Nez
Perce reservation established by the treaty of 1855. Upon discovery of gold in
the region, the U.S. eliminated the reservation in the Wallowas in 1863. The
Joseph Band held on until 1877 when, under pressure from increasing white
settlement, they were ordered to abandon their ancestral homeland. Violent
conflicts ensued as the Joseph Band joined other Nez Perce and Palouse bands on
a historic 1,170 mile retreat. After five months of elusive flight, with his
people exhausted, freezing and heavily outnumbered, Joseph in dignified
surrender proclaimed: "from where the sun now stands I will fight no more
forever." With promises made by the generals at their surrender broken, the Nez
Perce were never allowed to return home though Chief Joseph pleaded their case
until his death in 1904. ~ text of marker
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