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In 1877  Nez Perce Indians refused to go onto a tiny reservation and left their homelands in Idaho and Washington hoping to make a new life in the Montana buffalo country When the Army attacked their sleeping village on Big Hole River, the Nez Perce repulsed their enemies and fled leaving 83 dead.. To avoid white settlements they made their way through the wilderness of Yellowstone Park. The chiefs tried to avoid contact with whites, but hot headed young warriors shot a man in the head and captured two young women. Later they killed a music teacher while he stood in the doorway of a remote cabin. Based on first-person accounts by people who lived those terrifying experiences, Encounters in Yellowstone, tells of the Nez Perce’ doomed flight through America’s most beloved national park.