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According to Chief Joseph, what caused tensions between whites and the Nez Perce?

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In the wake of the expansion of the US throughout the west, animosities flared between natives and settlers over land. ... It is a fact that the encroachment upon Nez Perce land by American settlers created the dispute in the first place, but the two sources differ in views about what role they played.

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