Entitled: Me no want to kill a man who can't shoot. The Nez Perce War (June - October 1877) pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe and their allies against the US Army. The conflict stemmed from the refusal of several bands of the Nez Perce to give up their ancestral lands in the Pacific Northwest and move to an Indian reservation in Idaho. Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1877 (cropped and cleaned).