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.

The Nez Perce nation currently governs and inhabits a reservation in Idaho.

They speak the Nez Perce language or Niimiipuutímt, a Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin.

Nez Perce baby, 1911.

The most common self-designation used today by the Nez Perce is Niimíipu.

" 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.

A traditional Nez Perce beaded shirt.

Nez Perce encampment, Lapwai, Idaho, ca.

In 1805 the Nez Perce were the largest tribe on the Columbia River Plateau, with a population of about 6, 000.

The breeding program was financed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Nez Perce tribe and a nonprofit group called the First Nations Development Institute ( based in Washington D. C .), which promotes such businesses in Indian country.

Fishing is an important ceremonial, subsistence, and commercial activity for the Nez Perce tribe.

The Nez Perce tribe runs the Nez Perce Tribal Hatchery on the Clearwater River as well as several satellite hatchery programs.

But it soon failed as the local Nez Perce tribe's men considered beaver trapping to be women's work, the tribe was migratory and apparently women thought they already had enough to do.

The county is named for the Nez Percé tribe.

The County commissioners gave conditional approval for the developers to complete a final plat of the land on February 13, 2004, but the attorney for the Nez Perce said the tribe would appeal the decision to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.

The name is Nez Perce and means " the place of pine trees and pestle ", because the tribe found stones here suitable for pulverizing camas roots and shade under the white pine trees in which to work.

Following an arduous trek through the Bitterroot Mountains, suffering through a mid-September snowstorm and near starvation, the Corps of Discovery expedition camped with the Nez Perce tribe on the Weippe Prairie outside of present-day Weippe in 1805.

The Kamiah area has been inhabited by the Nez Perce tribe for centuries.

The Kittitas Valley was occupied by the Kittitas ( Yakama Ichishkíin Sínwit: Ki-tatash ) or Upper Yakama tribe, as well as hunting and food gathering parties of Cayuse and Nez Perce.

The expedition spent three days at the village of Chief Yallept and his tribe of Walla Wallas ( relatives of the Nez Perce ), in the company of about a hundred Yakamas.

Whitmore appeared as General Oliver O. Howard in the 1975 television film I Will Fight No More Forever, based on the 1877 conflict between the United States Army and the Nez Percé tribe, led by Chief Joseph.

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt, Hinmatóowyalahtq ̓ it in Americanist orthography, popularly known as Chief Joseph, or Young Joseph ( March 3, 1840 – September 21, 1904 ) succeeded his father Tuekakas ( Chief Joseph the Elder ) as the leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain ( Wallowa ) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe indigenous to the Wallowa Valley in what is today the State of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

A series of events which culminated in episodes of violence led the those Nez Perce who resisted removal including Joseph's band and an allied band of the Palouse tribe to take flight to attempt to reach political asylum, ultimately with the Sioux chief Sitting Bull in Canada.

The Nez Perce War was the name given to the United States Army's pursuit of the over 800 Nez Perce and an allied band of the Palouse tribe who had fled toward freedom.

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The earliest known settlers in Hells Canyon were the Nez Percé tribe.

After 1874, Howard commanded troops in the West, conducting a famous campaign against the Nez Perce tribe.

The flight of the non-treaty Nez Perce began on June 15, 1877 with Chief Joseph, Looking Glass, White Bird, Ollokot, Lean Elk ( Poker Joe ) and Toohoolhoolzote leading 800 men, women and children in an attempt to reach a peaceful sanctuary.

Western Settlement of the area began in 1818, when the North West Company built Fort Nez Perce at the mouth of the Walla Walla River.

Still hoping to avoid further bloodshed, Joseph and other non-treaty Nez Perce leaders began moving people away from Idaho.

The Nez Perce began to trade with these settlers.

" The Nez Perce defeated Perry at the Battle of White Bird Canyon and began their long flight to escape from the American soldiers.

Joseph and White Bird were joined by Looking Glass's band and, after several battles and skirmishes in Idaho during the next month, approximately 250 Nez Perce warriors, and 500 women and children, along with more than 2000 head of horses and other livestock, began a remarkable fighting retreat.

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.

Both the Bannock and Nez Perce Wars began after Nez Perce became incensed at the failure of the US government to uphold treaties, and at settlers who plowed up their camas prairies, which they depended on for subsistence.

The soldiers crossed the river and rushed into the village and began firing into the tipis where most of the Nez Perce were still sleeping.

The Nez Perce began their journey with the mistaken notion that after crossing the next mountain range or defeating the latest army sent to oppose them they would find a peaceful new home.

As they began their journey to Idaho, Chief Joseph learned that three young Nez Percé men, enraged at the loss of their homeland, had massacred a band of white settlers.