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Buckhorn Lookout, Oregon

*Rugged Travel: roads recommended for high clearance, four wheel drive vehicles only; usually passable from July to October*

Click on the photo above to see magnificent views of the traditional Nez Perce homelands of the Wallowa area bands, in the ...

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Indian Village Grove, Oregon

*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*

A half-mile walking trail leads through a grove of ponderosa pines to a former Nez Perce spring camp. Many of the trees ...

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Dug Bar, Oregon

*Rugged Travel: roads recommended for high clearance, four wheel drive vehicles only; usually passable from July to October*

On May 31, 1877, in response to the U.S. Army’s command, most ...

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Imnaha, Oregon

*Adventurous Travel: roads not recommended for motor homes or vehicles towing trailers; usually passable from July to October*

Imnaha was once a winter village for one of the large bands of the Nez Perce. Numerous pit house villages extended both north and ...

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Old Chief Jospeh Memorial

This is a national historic landmark and sacred site dedicated toTiwiteq'is, Old Chief Joseph. He is referred to as Old Joseph to distinguish him from his son, Chief Joseph (Hinmatooyalahtqitphoto_library

MHHM-37 Lewis and Clark in Salish Territory

US 93, MP 82, south of Lolo

 

The Lewis and Clark Expedition camped near here September 9 through 11, 1805, while traveling through the ancient territory of the Salish and Pend d’Oreille people. Since time immemorial, the tribes have ...

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MHHM-38 The Bitterroot Valley, Homeland of the Selis

US 93, Mile Post 82, South of Lolo

 

Since Coyote first prepared this place for human beings, the Bitterroot Valley has been the homeland of Salish-speaking peoples of western Montana-the Qlispe (Kalispell or Pend d’Oreille) and the closely-related Selis ...

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MHHM-39 Fort Owen

US 93, Mile Post 67, Stevensville Junction at Cross of North Kootenai Creek

 

Between 1831 and 1840 the Flathead Indians sent our three delegations, with St. Louis as their objective, to petition that “Black Robes” be sent to teach ...

MHHM-40 Salish Removal

US 93, Mile Post 67, Stevensville Junction

 

In the Hellgate Treaty negotiations (1855), Xw Etxcin (Plenty Horses or Chief Victor) and the Selis people rebuffed efforts of US officials to get them to abandon the choice lands of their ...

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MHHM-41 Rocky Mountain Laboratory

US 93, Mile Post 48, at Hamilton

 

In earlier, days, Rocky Mountain spotted fever was a dreaded malady in the West. The first case of spotted fever was recorded in ten Bitterroot Valley in 1873. Neither cause nor cure ...

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