The immediate crisis seemed to be behind them.

People and horses needed rest.

The army had not given up.

The People Who Did Not Go: Treaty-Band nimíipuu And The Weight Of Division

One aspect of the 1877 crisis that tends to be understated in popular accounts is the position of the treaty-band nimíipuu — the people from bands that had signed the 1863 treaty and were living on the Lapwai Reservation.

These were not neutral parties.