Gas smell prompts evacuation of Nez Perce County Courthouse; cause is still being investigated

The cause of a gas smell at the Nez Perce County Courthouse in Lewiston was still under investigation Thursday morning by Avista crews, who were summoned after a 30-minute evacuation of the ...
The Spokesman-Review

Nez Perce Tribe asks Congress to ‘avert a financial crisis,’ warns Trump administration is withholding fish hatchery funds

WASHINGTON – Nine months into the fiscal year, the Nez Perce Tribe is still waiting for money Congress approved months ago for contracts to operate fish hatcheries vital to maintaining Northwest ...
Boise State Public Radio

What salmon mean to the Nez Perce people

Jasmine Higheagle is the secretary for the Nez Perce Fish and Wildlife Commission. Our Living Lands Producer Daniel Spaulding ...
Oregonian

Exhibit celebrates Nez Perce people in their ancestral Oregon homeland

JOSEPH — Under the watchful eye of Chief Joseph Mountain still pristine with snow, stories of the nimiipuu (or Nez Perce people) are being shared through vibrant visual art in the surroundings of ...
OPB

Nez Perce Tribe reclaims 148 acres of ancestral land in Eastern Oregon

The Nez Perce Tribe is reclaiming an ancestral village site in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after being pushed out the area. This month, the tribe purchased 148 acres of an ...
The Inlander

Nez Perce Tribe shares its work to restore balance in documentary Covenant of the Salmon People

This time three years ago, the Nez Perce Tribe shared what's at stake if salmon populations in the Columbia-Snake river system don't recover. The extensive story in the Seattle Times by Lynda Mapes ...
In These Times

For the Nez Perce, a Proposed Gold Mine Is a Symbol of Broken Promises

As a citizen of the Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, which means the People, I look at gold mining as a symbol of broken promises. In 1855, when my ancestors entered into a treaty with the United States, we ...
Los Angeles Times

Nez Perce Revive Their Tradition of Horsemanship

LAPWAI, Idaho — Redwing Two Moons hung on to the reins as the exotic horse raced around a small circular corral. Rarely ridden, the horse known as Yellowhand was refusing to take orders from the ...
NPR

The Nez Perce tribe resumes annual powwows after pandemic hiatus

The Nez Perce tribe has resumed its annual powwows after canceling them for the pandemic. They are an important way for the tribe to assert its presence in northeastern Oregon. The Nez Perce tribe has ...
Seattle Times

They were driven from their land in 1877 by U.S. soldiers. Now the Nez Perce tribe is home again.

AM’SÁAXPA, Wallowa County, Oregon — They were exiled from this place during the Nez Perce War in 1877, driven from their homes and ancestral lands by U.S. soldiers. But in a triumphal return, tribal ...
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The Nez Perce War of 1877

On October 5, 1877, Nez Perce leader Chief Joseph formally surrendered his forces to General Nelson A. Miles and General Oliver Otis Howard at Bear Paw Mountain, Montana Territory. This effectively ...