Just before wolves were reintroduced to Idaho and Yellowstone in January 1995, the late Horace Axtell, who was the spiritual leader of the traditional Nez Perce Seven-Drum religion, and Tribal member ...

Curated by the Josephy Library of Western History and Culture and the ITAM’YANÁAWIT Small Business Program of the Nez Perce Tribe, the exhibit features works of 10 Nez Perce artists who create ...

The Nez Perce once inhabited 14 million acres across modern-day Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Comprised of more than a dozen bands, the Nez Perce peoples shared language, religion and family, but ...

The Nez Perce had lost 90% of their homeland to the controversial 1863 “Thief Treaty” that many bands never signed. In 1877, ...

The Nez Perce culture, economy and diet is built around salmon. That was disrupted by the dramatic decline in fish numbers following construction of dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers.

The Nez Perce tribe has resumed its annual powwows after canceling them for the pandemic. They are an important way for the tribe to assert its presence in northeastern Oregon.

Feeling crowded out of the prime fishing spots in the Clearwater Basin, the Nez Perce Tribe will experiment with gill nets and drift nets during the spring chinook fishing season.

“BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph, in the valley the Wallowa Band Nez Perce people have called home since time immemorial ...

Nez Perce tribal fishers tend a gillnet on Lower Granite Reservoir. The tribe intends to use gill nets and drift nets on the Clearwater River this spring. Courtesy of Joseph Oatman Feeling crowded ...

The Nez Perce culture, economy and diet is built around salmon. That was disrupted by the dramatic decline in fish numbers following construction of dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers.