Quotes About Nez Perce

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.

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Correct in his later assessment of war in general, Sherman was decidedly incorrect in this statement. The Nez Perce had both just cause and provocation for going to war. The whites were in the process of stealing their ancestral lands and had cheated, robbed, and killed some of them.