Hunter+A.


 * What is your //general// belief about who or what is most responsible for causing the conflict?**

I believe that the Nez perce tribe should of faught for the land because the land was given to the tribe by the treaty.

**What is the relevant background information (i.e. who, what, when, where)?**

who: The Nez Perce Tribe what: White settlers wanted to mine on the nez perce's land for gold but the nez perce refused to give up the land that had been theirs and killed 4 people. when: It took placce in 1840 where: It too place in the Southeastern Washinton, Northeastern Oregon, and the Western Idaho


 * What were 3 factors that helped cause the conflict (politics, economics, geography, history)?**

Three factors that helped cause the conflict would be.....

1) The Walla Walla Council

2) Extended all lands within the original reservastion boundaries by the treaty

3) The white settlers wanted to mine gold on thier land

**Explain why one factor is more important than the others.**

I think the Walla walls council is more important because they actually gave the treaty to sign and now thier are settlers who want to mine on the Nez Perce's land. If the walla walla council gave them the land then the Nez Perce's tribe would of had the right to kick the white settlers off their land.

**How could the conflict have been avoided?**

Thse conflict could of been avoided by having the white settlers respect the treaty that the walla walla council gave them and just not mine on their land. the white settlers could of mined somewhere else and just let the Nez Perce tribe have their land. In 1876, Chief Joseph had baned the tribe to live in the wallowa mountains so the only land they had was the land that they owned.

Lambert,Dale A. __Washington: A State of Contrast__. East Wenatchee: DMI, 2008
 * What sources of information have you used? **

Josephy, Alvin M. "The Treaty Trail." __Washington History Online.__ 1997. Houghton Mufflin Company.5-20-09 .[|www.washingtonhistoryonline.org]

Welker, Glenn."Chief Joseph." __Chief Joseph.__ 1996-2009. Return to Indigenous People's Literature.5-19-09.[|www.indingenouspeole.net]