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The Nez Perce National Historical Park includes a research center which has the park's historical archives and library collection.
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During the 20th century the Plateau tribes, such as the Nez Perce perfected contour-style beadwork, in which the lines of beads are stitch to emphasize the pictorial imagery.
Nez Perce has a three-way nominal case system with both ergative (- nim ) and accusative (- ne ) plus an absolute ( unmarked ) case for intransitive subjects: hipáayna qíiwn ‘ the old man arrived ’; hipáayna wewúkiye ‘ the elk arrived ’; wewúkiyene péexne qíiwnim ‘ the old man saw an elk ’.
* 1877 – American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon – the Nez Perce defeat the U. S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
* 1960 – The Nez Perce tribe is awarded $ 4 million for of land undervalued at 4 cents / acre in the 1863 treaty.
The Nez Perce () ( autonym: Niimíipu ) are Native American people who live in the Pacific Northwest region ( Columbia River Plateau ) of the United States.
An anthropological theory says they descended from the Old Cordilleran Culture, which moved south from the Rocky Mountains and west in Nez Perce lands.
They speak the Nez Perce language or Niimiipuutímt, a Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin.
" Nez Perce " is also used by the tribe itself, the United States Government, and contemporary historians.
This term is an adaptation of the term cú · pʼnitpeľu ( the Nez Perce people ) which is formed from cú · pʼnit ( piercing with a pointed object ) and peľu ( people ).
When analyzed through the Nez Perce Language Dictionary, the term cúpnitpelu contains no reference to " Piercing with a pointed object " as described by D. E.
Put all three parts of the Nez Perce word together now to get cú-+-piní + pelú = cúpnitpelu, or the People Walking Single File Out of the Forest.
Nez Perce oral tradition indicates the name " Cuupn ' itpel ' uu " meant " we walked out of the woods or walked out of the mountains " and referred to the time before the Nez Perce had horses.
Nez Perce is a misnomer given by the interpreter of the Lewis and Clark Expedition at the time they first encountered the Nez Perce in 1805.
The Chinook relied heavily upon salmon as did the Nez Perce and shared fishing and trading sites but were much more hierarchical in their social arrangements.
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National Forests and their acreage within the county are: Nez Perce National Forest 2, 224, 091 ; Clearwater National Forest 870, 807 ; Payette National Forest 804, 853 ; Bitterroot National Forest 464, 108 ; Salmon National Forest 66, 074 ; and Wallowa National Forest 1, 787.
The Nez Perce National Forest is located entirely within the county's borders, and is the largest National Forest lying within a single county.
Hiking is also popular in the Nez Perce National Forest, the Gospel Hump Wilderness, and Hells Canyon to the south of the city.
The first actual fire jumps in the history of smokejumping were made by Rufus Robinson and Earl Cooley at Rock Pillar near Marten Creek in the Nez Perce National Forest on July 12, 1940, out of Ninemile, followed shortly by a two-man fire jump out of Winthrop.
It is the second-largest National Forest ( after the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho ) that is contained entirely within one county.
From the Nez Perce National Historical Park: Camas Prairie is interpreted at a highway pullout on the north side of U. S. Highway 95, about 6 miles ( 10 km ) south of Grangeville.
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Wood's 1877 Diary of Alaska and the Nez Perce Conflict ", Oregon Historical Quarterly Spring 2005 ( 12 November 2005 )
The Nez Perce National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park comprising 38 sites located throughout the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington which are the traditional aboriginal lands of the Nez Perce.
The battlefield is preserved in the Big Hole National Battlefield Unit of the Nez Perce National Historical Park.
The battlefield today is part of the Nez Perce National Historical Park and the Nez Perce National Historic Trail.
The park was made a part of Nez Perce National Historical Park in 1992 which consists of 38 separate locations in five different states, following the flight of the Nez Percé tribe from the U. S. Cavalry.
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