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Nez Perce baby in cradleboard, 1911. Their name for themselves is nimíipuu (pronounced ), meaning, "we, the people", in their language, part of the Sahaptin family. [23]Nez Percé is an exonym given by French Canadian fur traders who visited the area regularly in the late 18th century, meaning literally "pierced nose".
Nez Perce displays an extensive system of vowel harmony.Vowel qualities are divided into two opposing sets, "dominant" /i a o/ and "recessive" /i æ u/.The presence of a dominant vowel causes all recessive vowels within the same phonological word to assimilate to their dominant counterpart; hence with the addition of the dominant-marked suffix /-ʔajn/:
The Nez Perce "had never before seen white men", and "proved to be the most helpful of the tribes which the explorers encountered in their travels". [4] By September 22, 1805, Lewis and the rest of the expedition arrived at Weippe Prairie. Lewis and Clark met many of the Nez Perce chiefs, including Twisted Hair, the leader of the encampment.
The words Sahaptin, Shahaptin, and Sahaptian are derived from the Columbia-Moses name for the Nez Perce, sħáptənəxʷ. [7] Cognates appear in other Interior Salishan languages, such as Okanagan sʕaptnx 'Nez Perce' [8] or Spokane saʕáptni 'Nez Perce', [9] indictating the ancient age of the ethnonym. The name Sahaptin has also been spelled ...
The present tribal designation probably derives from the proper designation of the most populous of the three regional bands of the Palouse/Palus people - the ″Middle Palouse/Palus Band″ as Palúšpam - "people of Pa-luš-sa/Palus [one of their most important settlements]", the neighboring Nez Percé also called them Pa-loots-poo/Pelú`cpu ...
Papspê'lu, another Nez Perce name, meaning "firs," or "fir-tree people." Isle-de-Pierre, name conferred by the French Canadian employees of the fur companies, meaning "rock island", perhaps for a band of the tribe. Middle Columbia Salish, so called by Teit (1928) and Spier (1930 b). Sa'ladebc, probably the Snohomish name.
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.
The name may have referred to the rocky area the tribe inhabited, or it may have been an imprecise rendering of the name they called themselves. [3] The tribe has been closely associated with the neighboring Nez Percé and Walla Walla. The Cayuse language is an isolate, independent of the neighboring Sahaptin-speaking peoples. The Cayuse ...