1. Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
... supply of food as well as looked after their horses for many months while the expedition continued via canoe to the Pacific coast. This union led to a friendship that lasted for many years to come. In 1855 the Nez Perces were invited to a "peace" council. Here, Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington ... Indians to move onto a much smaller plot of land that they had set aside for them. Land that they wouldn't have been able to sustain on for it was infertile and barren. The Nez Perces Chief went to the President and requested that they be allowed to keep their land. President Ulysses ....
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