If you drive east on Highway 95 through the Idaho Panhandle, the Clearwater River will be on your right, winding its way slowly and surely toward Lapwai, Idaho, on the Nez Perce Reservation. The river ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

BOISE, Idaho — The state of Idaho is riddled with Native American place names like Lapwai, Kamiah, Kooskia and Weippe. The culture and heritage runs deep in the Gem State. Speaking of deep, there is ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry combines wonders of the natural world with Indigenous storytelling and artwork. Heads and Hearts: Seeing the Landscape through Nez Perce ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEZ PERCE, Idaho — A living piece of Idaho will be in Washington, D.C. this holiday season. A tree from the 4,000,000-acre Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests will be placed on the west lawn of the ...