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Rose Josephine Corbett (née Compo; April 6, 1912 – January 19, 1999), later Rose Josephine Frank, was a Native American artist of the Nez Perce Tribe, known for her cornhusk weaving. [1] Frank used her art as a way to preserve her tribe's craft, traditions, and rituals by creating artwork and instructing others.
William Clark (August 1, 1770 ... his three sisters, and the Clark family's slaves arrived in Kentucky in March 1785, ... Clark allegedly had a Nez Perce son, ...
By September 22, 1805, the entire expedition made it to Weippe Prairie. Lewis and Clark met many of the Nez Perce chiefs. One of them, Red Bear, gave them dressed buckskins. Lewis and Clark reciprocated with presents of "beads and a few other articles". The Nez Perce "later found the white man's gifts to be cheap." [5]
In June 1877, several bands of the Nez Perce, numbering about 750 men, women, and children and resisting relocation from their native lands on the Wallowa River in northeast Oregon to a reservation in west-central Idaho on the Clearwater river, attempted to escape to the east through Idaho, Montana and Wyoming over the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains.
Original Nez Perce territory (green) and the reduced reservation of 1863 (brown) The Nez Perce territory at the time of Lewis and Clark (1804–1806) was approximately 17,000,000 acres (69,000 km 2) and covered parts of present-day Washington, Oregon, Montana, and Idaho, in an area surrounding the Snake (Weyikespe), Grande Ronde River, Salmon (Naco’x kuus) ("Chinook salmon Water") and the ...
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At the time, the term "Nez Percé", French for pierced nose, was used more broadly than today, and included the Walla Walla in its scope in English usage. [2] Fort Nez Perce was renamed to Fort Walla Walla when it was acquired in 1821 by Hudson's Bay Company (HBC). [3] It was located west of the present city.
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