Looking Glass (Native American leader)

Looking Glass (Native American leader)
Looking Glass
Chief Looking Glass.jpg
Tribe Nez Perce
Born c. 1832
Wallowa Valley
Died October 4, 1877(1877-10-04)
Bear's Paw mountains battlefield
Native name Allalimya Takanin
Known for Nez Perce War

Looking Glass (Allalimya Takanin c.1832-1877) was a principal Nez Perce architect of many of the military strategies employed by the Nez Perce during the Nez Perce War of 1877. He, along with Chief Joseph, directed the 1877 retreat from eastern Oregon into Montana and onward toward the Canadian border during the Nez Perce War.[1]

Although he bitterly resented white encroachments on his ancestral lands, he opposed going to war with the United States over its plans to force his people onto the small Indian reservation assigned to them at Lapwai, Idaho.

Notes

  1. ^ Greene, Jerome A. "Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis". Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

References

  • Lafarge, Oliver. (MCMLVI). Crown Publishers Inc. Page 192.

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