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Old Reservation Boundary

Chief Joseph Boundary

Remnant of an Old Chief Joseph marker marking the Wallowa reservation boundary of the 1863 treaty, which Joseph did not sign. R.M. Downy in 1874 described them as being about 3-4 feet at that time, built around poles or posts set in the ground tall (originally about 10 feet tall). Old Chief Joseph told him, through an interpreter, that they showed “where his line was to the Wallowa country and he wanted the white men to know where his lines were.” These poles were maintained by the Indians until 1877.