''I Will Fight No More Forever'' is a 1975

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film starring

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as General Oliver O. Howard and Ned Romero as

Chief Joseph ''Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt'' (or ''Hinmatóowyalahtq̓it'' in Americanist orthography), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger (March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa ...

. It is a dramatization of Chief Joseph's resistance to the U.S. government's forcible removal of his Nez Perce Indian tribe to a reservation in

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Plot

Set in 1877, the story follows

of the

Nez Perce The Nez Percé (; autonym in Nez Perce language: , meaning "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who are presumed to have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region for at least 11,500 years.Ames, K ...

tribe, who lived in the border area of Idaho and Oregon. As President

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permits white settlers to come to both territories, the native Nez Perce fight back and defy the order from Grant to leave their home ground. The

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, commanded by General Oliver Howard (a

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Veteran) is then sent out to push the tribe out, leading to war. The fight between whites (both soldiers and settlers) and tribe members increases, leading Joseph to try for an escape to Canada, but deep down he fears a long, costly fight with a tough enemy. As he says to one member of the tribe who killed a white man for another tribe member's murder on the eve of war, "You have had your revenge. Now the white man will have his".

Cast

as General Oliver O. Howard * Ned Romero as

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as Captain Wood *John Kauffman as Wahlitits * Emilio Delgado as Ollokot *

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as Rainbow * Linda Redfearn as Toma *

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as White Bird *Vince St. Cyr as Chief Looking Glass *Delroy White as Colonel Gibbon *Lance Hool as Sergeant Giles *Charles Ynfante as Yellow Wolf

Awards and nominations

Jeb Rosebrook and Theodore Strauss were nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy - Original Teleplay. Robert K. Lambert received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for Entertainment Programming for a Special.

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