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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Nez Perce Indians, (search)
advent of these men was followed by the introduction of intoxicating liquors, and a general demoralization ensued. For some years the great body of the Nez Perce Indians had been on the Lapwai reservation, in the northwestern part of Idaho. Chief Joseph, who had about 500 Indians as his following, had long laid claim to the boundaries as established by the treaty of 1855, more especially to that country west of Snake River in Oregon and the Wallowa Valley. These Indians had never made their them in his executive order of June 16, 1873, but on June 10, 1875, this order was revoked, and all that part of Oregon west of the Snake River, embracing the Wallowa Valley, was restored to the public domain. General Howard in his work, Nez Perce Joseph, does not think the real cause of the Indian war came from the reduction of the reserve, nor from the immediate contact with immigrants, and the quarrels that sprung therefrom. These, without doubt, aggravated the difficulty. The main cause