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WAR IS MADE TO TAKE SOMETHING NOT YOUR OWN.
— Yellow Wolf, Nez Perce War Veteran
— Yellow Wolf, Nez Perce War Veteran
Remnants of Joseph’s “Dead Line”
Map of the Reserve from “The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest” by Alvin Josephy
June 16, 1873,
It is hereby ordered that the tract of country above described be withheld from entry and settlements as public lands, and that the same be set apart as a reservation for the roaming Nez Percé Indians, as recommended by the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Signed,
PRESIDENT U. S. GRANT
Early settler of Wallowa
They had not done wrong to be so killed. We had only asked to be left in our own homes, the homes of our ancestors. — wetatonmi, wal’wá·ma survivor