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Why did the government move the Nez Percé back to the Northwest?​

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The government move the Nez Percé back to the Northwest because Fear of extinction
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The conflict, fought between June and October 1877, stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce, dubbed "non-treaty Indians," to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho.
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