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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 ...
The 38 sites are linked by the history of the Nez Perce people, rather than by geographic location. [11] Twenty-six of the sites are on or near the Nez Perce Indian Reservation in Idaho and can be toured in one day. Adjacent states hold the other twelve sites. [12]
The Nez Perce War was an armed conflict in 1877 in the Western United States that pitted several bands of the Nez Perce tribe of Native Americans and their allies, a small band of the Palouse tribe led by Red Echo (Hahtalekin) and Bald Head (Husishusis Kute), against the United States Army.
Original Nez Perce territory (green) and the reduced reservation of 1863 (brown) Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (or hinmatóowyalahtq̓it in Americanist orthography; March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904), popularly known as Chief Joseph, Young Joseph, or Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest ...
This is a list of Indian reservations and other tribal homelands in the ... Nez Perce Reservation: Nez Perce ... Rosebud Indian Reservation: South Dakota: 10,869: ...
Nov. 30—A draft settlement agreement between the Biden administration and the Nez Perce and other lower Columbia River tribes leaves Snake River dams in place but supports actions that make ...
White Bird, Sioux Chief and Joseph, Chief of the Flatheads, published 1889. White Bird (Peo-peo-hix-hiix, piyóopiyo x̣ayx̣áyx̣ or more correctly Peopeo Kiskiok Hihih - "White Goose"), also referred to as White Pelican (died 1892), was leader, war chief and tooat (Shaman or Prophet) of the Lamátta or Lamtáama band of the Nez Perce tribe with the Lamata village along the Salmon River. [1]
The Umatilla, Warm Springs and Nez Perce tribes estimated losing 90% or more of their salmon harvest from the time that treaties were signed in 1855, the report said. Northwest tribes respond