American Indian Trails of the West

The Nez Perce Trail of Idaho and MontanaAcross the Bitterroots and High Plains, Nez Perce history is honored and celebrated. “The most extraordinary of Indian wars,” was General William T. Sherman’s description of the 1877 war and 1,170-mile flight of Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce people, beginning in eastern Oregon and ending in Montana. Although granted the rights to their ancestral homelands by an l855 treaty, the discovery of gold on their lands saw the Nez Perce rights disintegrat-in