Question

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

Answer 1

The government move the Nez Percé back to the Northwest because Fear of extinction

Answer 2

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.