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[[Image:Joseph Canyon Map.gif|thumb|250px|right|Location in northeastern Oregon, near the Washington and Idaho borders]]
[[Image:Joseph Canyon, Oregon.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Joseph Canyon as seen from [[Oregon Route 3]]]]▼
[[Image:JosephCanyon.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The canyon as seen from [[Fields Spring State Park]]]]▼
'''Joseph Canyon''' (Nez Perce: '''an-an-a-soc-um''', meaning "long, rough canyon"<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sambur | first=Jeff | title=On the Trail of the Nez Perce:Searching for the Promised Land|work=Native Peoples Magazine|url=http://www.nativepeoples.com/article/articles/238/1/On-the-Trail-of-the-Nez-Perce/Page1.html|date=1 January 2007|accessdate=17 March 2008}}</ref>) is a {{convert|2000|ft|m|adj=on}}-deep [[basalt]] [[canyon]] in northern [[Wallowa County, Oregon|Wallowa County]], [[Oregon]], and southern [[Asotin County, Washington|Asotin County]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[United States]].
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The canyon itself is private land of the Nez Perce Tribe, and is used for [[ranching]], [[hunting]], and some grain crops.<ref name="reidel"/><ref name="nezperce"/> Other viewpoints include [[Fields Spring State Park]].
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Image:Grande ronde river.jpg|Grande Ronde River in Joseph Canyon
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