Nez Perce War

American  

[nez purs wawr] / ˈnɛz ˈpɜrs ˈwɔr /

Or Nez Percé War

noun

1. a war (1877) fought in the northwestern U.S. between the U.S. and a band of Nez Perce Indians.

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Example Sentences

AM’SÁAXPA, Wallowa County, Oregon — They were exiled from this place during the Nez Perce War in 1877, driven from their homes and ancestral lands by U.S. soldiers.

From Seattle Times

He is descended on his mother’s side from Chief Joseph, whose grave is at a lonely rise in a cemetery in Nespelem on the Colville Reservation, where he was forced after the Nez Perce War to live out his days in exile from his beloved home lands in the Wallowa region of northeast Oregon — taken in the Thief Treaty.

From Seattle Times

While the shooting has long stopped, a different kind of Nez Perce War still goes on.

From Seattle Times

Imprisoned at Fort Leavenworth for the winter of 1877–78 and then exiled to Indian Territory, hundreds of Nez Perce War survivors died from malaria, cholera, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and suicide.

From Slate

Commanding General of the Army William Tecumseh Sherman, who during the Nez Perce War had envisioned Joseph dangling from a rope, cut through the crowd at a White House ball, shook the chief’s hand, and introduced him to his daughters.

From Slate