One Sky Above Us: Montana and the Nez Perce Flight of 1877

Join Wild Montana’s Island Range Chapter and Interpretive Ranger Austin Haney to learn about Nez Perce Flight of 1877.

When the U.S. government reduced the Nez Perce reservation to one-tenth its original size, even those who refused to sign the 1863 Treaty were evicted from their homeland and moved onto the new reservation.

One Sky Above Us: Montana and the Nez Perce Flight of 1877

Austin Haney, Interpretive Ranger at Bear Paw Battlefield, Nez Perce National Historical Park, will present a synopsis of the Nez Perce story, focusing on the final month of their flight for freedom through Montana, the last battle, and the complicated legacy of one of the West’s most poignant episodes. He will highlight the special nature of the Nez Perce Historic Trail today, which is still much as the Nez Perce would have seen it then.