Inmuttooyahlatlat ('Chief Joseph') was an American Indian chief of the Nez Perce tribe. He was born in 1840 at Wallowa Valley and died in 1904. He succeeded to the leadership of the tribe in 1871 and led resistance to white encroachment, leading his people in the Nez Perce War of 1877, defeating the US army at several engagements while conducting a masterly retreat toward Canada. He at last surrendered to General Nelson A Miles on October the 5th 1877. Research Inmuttooyahlatlat