He led his band during the most tumultuous period in their contemporary history when they were forcibly removed from their ancestral lands in the Wallowa Valley by the United States federal government and forced to move onto an reservation in Lapwai, Idaho.

Nez Perce encampment, Lapwai, Idaho, ca.

Lapwai is a city in Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States.

Government commissioners asked the Nez Perce to accept a new, much smaller reservation of situated around the village of Lapwai in Idaho, and excluding the Wallowa Valley.

At the age of 60, Mamby announced a comeback which was to have taken place in Lapwai, Idaho at the Pi-Nee-Waus Community Center of the Nez Perce Tribe, in a card that was subsequently canceled.

The Spaldings found a mission to the Nez Perce Indians at Lapwai in present-day Idaho.

She grew up in Lapwai, Idaho, on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation where her father worked as a blacksmith and federal marshal.

The other Nez Perce leaders then agreed to the move including Chief Joseph, who considered military resistance to be futile and reported as ordered to Fort Lapwai, Idaho.

The Nez Perce Horse Registry ( NPHR ) program began in 1995 in Lapwai, Idaho and is based on cross-breeding the old-line Appaloosa horses ( the Wallowa herd ) with an ancient Central Asian breed called Akhal-Teke.

Heart of the Monster, Nez Perce National Historical Park, Lapwai, Idaho

To his great delight, he returned to the Nez Perce in September 1859, and to Lapwai in 1862.

Fletcher and Chief Joseph at the Nez Percé Lapwai Reservation in Idaho

Lapwai is located at ( 46. 404388 ,-116. 804376 ).

Over sixty years later, her remains were disinterred for reburial beside her husband at Lapwai, Idaho.

The city is named for Colonel William Craig ( 1809 – 69 ), a mountain man and Idaho's first permanent white settler in Lapwai in 1838.

Lapwai is part of the Lewiston, ID-WA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

US 95 follows the descending river, then climbs over White Bird Hill to the Camas Prairie, then descends the Lapwai Canyon to the Clearwater River.

The park's headquarters are located in Lapwai, Idaho.

The passage by vehicle was arduous until significant highway improvements were made on U. S. Route 95 in North Central Idaho from 1965-95 ( Lapwai Canyon, White Bird Hill, Lewiston grade, and Lawyer's Canyon ).

After a trip further down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver for supplies, they backed down the trail to Lapwai near present-day Lewiston, Idaho.

He died in Lapwai, Idaho, August 3, 1874.

* Henry H. Spalding ( 1803 – 1843 ), U. S. Presbyterian missionary, established the Lapwai Mission in 1836 in what is now Idaho

* Petequakey (‘ Comes to Us With the Sound of Wings ’, better known as Isidore Cayen dit Boudreau, Chief of the Parklands or Willow Cree at Muskeg Lake, born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, as son of Pierre Narcisse Cayen dit Boudreau and Adelaide Catherine Arcand (‘ Kaseweetin ’), though he was a Métis he became chief of the Willow Cree an the Métis, who were living with the Cree, brother and counselor of chief Kee-too-way-how ( a. k. a. Alexander Cayen dit Boudreau ), after Kee-too-way-how had left the reserve on the Muskeg Lake to live around Batoche, became Petequakey chief ( 1880 – 1889 ) of the remaining Cree and Métis living in the reserve, he participated on 26 March 1885 along with the Métis leader Gabriel Dumont at the battle at Duck Lake, thereafter he led his tribal group to St. Laurent to participate in the defense of Batoche, one of the largest Métis settlements and the seat of the Saskatchewan's provisional government during the rebellion )

Another town, De Valls Bluff had the tribal seat office but now one of the county seats.

Poplar is the seat for the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes, including the tribal law enforcement agency and courthouse.

It is the seat of tribal government of the Paiute Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation and home to the tribe's Museum and Visitor Center

The town is the tribal seat of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina as well as the home of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke.

Pembroke is the tribal seat of the Lumbee Indian Tribe of North Carolina, the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River, the ninth largest tribal nation, and the largest non-reservation, not federally recognized and without benefits, state-recognized tribe in the United States.

It is the tribal headquarters of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and county seat of Sioux County.

The seat of the Coquille Indian Tribe's tribal government is located in North Bend, which is a United States recognized sovereign tribe of Native Americans who have traditionally lived on the southern Oregon Coast.

Named for the Sisseton ( or Sissetowan ) division of the Native American Sioux, the city is located a few miles north of the tribal seat of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate at Agency Village, South Dakota.

The area was originally a Native American village and the tribal seat of the Bear Clan of the Potawatomi Indians.

Clinton, North Carolina is the tribal seat.

The Pokanoket tribal seat was located near present-day Bristol, Rhode Island.

It will also feature upgrades to the original Element such as projector-beam halogen headlights, custom tribal print seat fabric, standard center console and carpet in the seating areas.

The tribes operate a tribal college, the Salish Kootenai College, and a heritage museum called " The People's Center " in Pablo, seat of the tribal government.

The main community is Browning, which is the seat of tribal government.

Nixon is the seat of tribal government.

By the 1st century BC they comprised eleven or so tribes – Avarigines, Blendii, Plentusii, Camarici ( or Tamarici ), Concani, Coniaci, Moroecani, Noegi, Orgenomesci, Salaeni, Vadinienses and Velliques – gathered into a tribal confederacy with the town of Aracillum ( Castro de Espina del Gallego, Sierra del Escudo – Cantabria ), located at the strategic Besaya river valley, as their political seat.

Although the Hopi tribal constitution, maneuvered into being by the Coal Mining Interests in 1939, provides each village with a seat on the tribal council, Hotevilla, where most of the traditional Hopi settled, has declined to elect a representative and maintains independence from the tribal council.

Kykotsmovi Village is now the seat of the Hopi tribal government.

The Meherrin tribal seat is Winton, North Carolina.