Chief Joseph's 1877 Surrender: The Last Stand of the Nez Percé
On 5 October 1877, a Nez Percé leader on horseback faced five U.S. soldiers on the Montana prairie and surrendered, ending a months-long, hundreds-of-miles flight from the U.S. Army. The tribe had been fleeing forced relocation, fighting off pursuit across rugged terrain. His surrender speech — "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever" — became one of American history's most quoted.
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