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NEZ PERCES (in allusion to their custom of wearing nose-rings, &c.) , a tribe of North
call
tract
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
reservation having been taken from them, owing to the allegation that they had not carried out the treaty stipulations, difficulties arose which, two years later, caused the Nez Perces War. The disaffected portion of the tribe, numbering some 400 or 500, held out for several months against all the forces the government could bring up, but were finally captured on the Sweet Grass Hills, northern Montana. They were placed in Indian
Washington
main
reservation in northern Idaho
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