A frantic rush to save history as the Trail Creek Fire inches closer to the Big Hole National Battlefield. It’s the site of a violent attack in 1877. At the break of dawn on Aug. 9, military ...

The U.S. government stole Nez Perce treaty land to make way for gold miners in the 1860s. A century and a half later, gold mining again threatens the tribe’s homeland.

He has visited many Nez Perce sites and is eager to point the way to them for prospective travelers. The Nez Perce currently have more than 3,500 citizens in their federally recognized tribal nation.

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 ...

Dan Nanamkin, of the Colville Nez Perce Native American tribe in Nespelem, Wash., right, drums with a procession through the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of ...

The Nez Perce tribe purchased a 148-acre property in Joseph in December, but could not perform a blessing ceremony due to COVID-19 concerns. The tribe had worked to keep a connection to the ...

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The Nez Perce, who consider buffalo sacred, find the slaughters offensive. With the park's bison population potentially at an all-time high, the tribe informed the state last month that the time ...

New research out of WSU shows that the Nez Perce people in the Northwest smoked indigenous tobacco 1,200 years ago. However, it was much less potent than what traders would bring in the 1790s, and ...

&#8220I buried him in that valley of the winding water. I love that land more than all the rest of the world." ...