Joseph Canyon Viewpoint is at a highway pullout along Oregon Highway 3, approximately 30 miles north of Enterprise, Oregon. It's about 11 miles south of the Oregon-Washington border; this is the area where the Wallowa Nez Perce people lived in the winter.
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Joseph Canyon
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Dug Bar crossing on the Snake River - Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
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Dug Bar
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Too-keh-la Ne-pyne (War comes) - Painting by Jo Proferes of the scene at White Bird
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The Camas Prairie site, Idaho County, Idaho
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Peet-kehk-yoot (Attacked) A painting by Jo Proferes of the destruction of Looking Glass Village
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Heart of the Monster, the site of the legendary creation of the Nez Perce people
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Painting by Jo Proferes of the Clearwater area
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Weitas Meadows, Clearwater National Forest
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Rocky Ridge Lake on the Clearwater National Forest
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Bowl Ridge, Clearwater National Forest
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Bald Mountain, Clearwater National Forest
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Sinque hole on the Clearwater National Forest
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The smoking place - rock cairns were vandalized in 2002. See our May 2002 newsletter for information on the reward.
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One of Indian Post Office Lakes, Clearwater National Forest
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Trail treads
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Devils Chair, Clearwater National Forest
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Blooming camas at Packer Meadows. Photo by Keith Thurlkill.
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Tipis pitched at Packer Meadows, Clearwater National Forest
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Hiker at Packer Meadows with blooming camas in background. Photo by Diana Jones, Clearwater National Forest.
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Mah-ma-yus-na Wup-tse, youn (Killing the children) - painting by Jo Proferes of the massacre at Big Hole
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Big Hole battlefield, with Battle Mountain in the background. Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
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On the slope above the Big Hole battlefield
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Hogan Meadows looking southeast along Trail Creek on the
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The Nez Perce camped here August 6, 1877. (Just out of the Big Hole.)
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Skinner Meadows - Big Hole - Bloody Dick Creek Divide on the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest. The Nez Perce camped here during the 1877
flight. On this creek in the early 1860s lived an Englishman whose byword was "bloody," and he became known as "Bloody Dick."
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Bannock Pass site, Salmon National Forest / Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
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Rifle pits at Camas Meadows dug during a battle on August 20, 1877 during the Nez Perce conflict
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Targhee Pass, Caribou-Targhee National Forest/ Gallatin National Forest
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This is the view west of Targhee Pass. Centennial Mountains are in the background. This was in the vicinity of Bacon's blockade on August 20-22, 1877.
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This eerie rock formation is near Mammoth in
Yellowstone National Park.
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Sunlight Basin from Dead Indian Hill Summit. There is a
monument atop this summit that commemorates the passing of the Nez Perce.
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The Cow Island crossing on the Missouri River
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Cow Island
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Cow Island
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Canyon Creek Battle Site near Laurel, Montana.
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Park visitor reading interpretive sign with Bear Paw Battlefield in the
background.
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The marker at Bear Paw
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Old Joseph gravesite, a National Historic Landmark north of Wallowa Lake, Joseph, Oregon
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Beargrass, a member of the Agave family, is a perennial grass with flowering stalks that may reach 8 feet in height. It blooms in early summer on dry mountainsides, with creamy white blossoms, and is sometimes called sawgrass because of the sharp-edged leaves.
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A Nez Perce historian and warrior named Many Wounds.
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Blooming camas at Packer Meadows. The bulbs of the camas flower were a major food source for the Nez Perce. They are dug in early summer and are usually pit-roasted.
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