Looking Glass (Native American leader)

Looking Glass
Looking Glass, Nez Perce leader
Tribe	Nez Perce
Born	c. 1832 Wallowa Valley
Died	October 4, 1877(1877-10-04) Bear's Paw mountains battlefield
Native name	Allalimya Takanin
Known for	Nez Perce War

Looking Glass (Allalimya Takanin c.1832-1877) was a principal Nez Perce architect of many of the military strategies employed by the Nez Perce during the Nez Perce War of 1877. He, along with Chief Joseph, directed the 1877 retreat from eastern Oregon into Montana and onward toward the Canadian border during the Nez Perce War.^[1]

Although he bitterly resented white encroachments on his ancestral lands, he opposed going to war with the United States over its plans to force his people onto the small Indian reservation assigned to them at Lapwai, Idaho.

Notes

^ Greene, Jerome A. "Nez Perce Summer, 1877: The U.S. Army and the Nee-Me-Poo Crisis". Montana Historical Society Press, 2000.

References

Lafarge, Oliver. (MCMLVI). Crown Publishers Inc. Page 192.

External links

PBS The West: Looking Glass

Persondata
Name	Looking Glass
Alternative names
Short description	Nez Perce War leader
Date of birth
Place of birth	Wallowa Valley
Date of death	October 4, 1877
Place of death	Battleground of Bear's Paw