The Nez Perce Chief Who Refused To Surrender 40 Miles From Canada — Then Slipped Past The Army And Escaped
Their treaty rights exist.
Their relationship to the land of Idaho and Oregon and Washington and Montana exists, complicated and contested and ongoing.
White Bird escaped Bear Paw forty miles from the border.
He was not wrong to try.
The Promise The Headline Made
The headline promises a chief who refused to surrender forty miles from Canada, then slipped past the army and escaped.
That promise has been honored in the preceding pages.
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