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Authorities said they also linked the two men to two North Idaho homicides — one in Nez Perce County and another in Clearwater County — that happened in the time window when they were at large.
Jun. 12—A Nez Perce grand jury on Monday indicted two Boise men for murder in the March slaying of 83-year-old James Mauney after they fled a shootout with prison guards. Skylar Meade, 32, and ...
Both Meade and Umphenour were indicted by a Nez Perce County grand jury in June in the death of 83-year-old James Mauney, according to previous reporting.
Born in Culdesac, Idaho, to Fitch Phinney, [2] Archie Phinney was five-eighths Nez Perce, but was also proud to claim William Craig as his great-grandfather. Craig (1807–69) was a fur trapper and the first permanent white settler in the region in 1840. [3]
In 1855, the Nez Perce signed a treaty with the United States that established the boundaries of a reservation encompassing much of their traditional lands. [1] In 1863, however, following the discovery of gold within the reservation, the U.S. government imposed a new treaty on the Nez Perce, reducing the size of the reservation by almost 90%. [2]
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 ...
Nov. 28—The man who fired gunshots from his Moscow apartment and forced a standoff with police on Sept. 5 is participating in Veterans Treatment Court in Nez Perce County. Thomas Adams, 54 ...
Old Chief Joseph was the mid-19th century leader of the Wallowa band of the Nez Perce tribe, one of several that had refused to sign treaties in the 1850s and 1860s that would have forced them onto reservation land in Idaho.