NEZ PERCÉ WAR Ep. 6 | “Fight No More Forever”

Legends of the Old West

Black Barrel Media

Arts, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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The Nez Percé have performed an extraordinary feat: they have traveled more than 1,300 miles and repelled three American armies in a series of battles and smaller skirmishes. But they are sore and exhausted. They are within reach of the Canadian border and freedom, but another American army joins the hunt and forces the final showdown between the Nez Percé and the United States. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Noiser+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. For more details, visit our website www.blackbarrelmedia.com and check out our social media pages. We’re @OldWestPodcast on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. On YouTube, subscribe to LEGENDS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: hit “Join” on the Legends YouTube homepage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:15.0	When the Nes Perse woke on the morning of September 16th, 1877,
1:20.0	they were in the hills of Central Montana, several miles north of the place that would soon be the city of Billings.
1:27.0	They had been traveling for two solid months, and many in the group had been running and fighting for an additional month on top of that.
1:35.0	Their ancestral homes were in the borderlands between Idaho, Washington and Oregon, but they had chosen to flee rather than to submit to life on a reservation.
1:45.0	Since the conflict that would be called the Nes Perse War began in earnest on June 14th,
1:51.0	five bands had fought five sizable engagements against the US Army and a host of smaller skirmishes in between.
1:59.0	They had attacked numerous white settlements and killed dozens of white settlers.
2:04.0	They had traveled 1,300 miles, crossed two major mountain ranges, and forwarded an uncountable number of streams, creeks and rivers.
2:13.0	They had been denied sanctuary by or worse attacked by, tribes they had considered friends.
2:20.0	By mid-September, as they awoke in the hills of Central Montana, they knew they were truly alone in America.
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