Nez Perce

Nez Perce

In 1877 Chief Joseph and his tribe were oredered to move to a reservation. Four of Chief Joseph's braves killed 16 white settlers and when the army began to take their possesions as retaliation, the Nez Perce refused to move to the reservation due to this contract breach. The only real choice they had was to try to get to Canada and enlist the aid of Chief Sitting Bull. After 1300 miles, 4 battles, and a brilliant display of bravery in which Toohoolhoolzote's(not a joke) 25 men pinned down Howard's 500, the Nez Perce were captured and defeated at Bear Paw Mountain. When surrendering Chief Joseph coined a famous quote "From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more."

Perce Blackborow was born in 1896.

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Resistance was hoopeless Resistance was simply too impossibly hopeless for them.

Originally, the Nez Perce built earth lodges. It was made by digging an underground room and putting a wood frame over it. Then they would cover the frame with earth, cedar bark and tule mats. They were either small round lodges made for one family or very large oval longhouses to house many people. Eventually, they started using tipis.

The Nez Perce were nomadic, so yes they did travel.

Both were forced to leave their homelands.

There is no Chief or President of the Nez Perce Tribe. The Tribe is Governed by the Tribal Executive Committee.

There are seven Indian reservation located in Montana: * The Blackfeet Nation, * The Chippewa Cree Tribe, * The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, * The Crow, * The Assiniboine and Gros Vetre, * The Assiniboine and Sioux and * The Northern Cheyenne. There are hundreds of tribes that do not have a Montana reservation, among them are: Apache, Navajo, Cherokee, Choctaw, Commanche, Mohawk, Nez Perce, Zuni, Seminole, Kiowa, Pojoaque, Nambe, Hopi,

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A very tough and loaded question that can not be answered without disclosing a wide variety of cultural bias. A few personal contenders include: * The Sioux, Cheyenne and the Arapahoe who were masters of the Bison and who proved to be the masters of the Seventh Cavalry. * The Cherokee who were masters of assimilation and the first to name a woman as the principal chief, Wilma Mankiller from 1985 to 1995. * The Commanche who were masters of the horse and ranger tactics. * The Nez Perce who were masters of persistence, animal husbandry and the creators of the Appaloosa. * The Odana who mastered the skywalking trade of steel beam construction. * The Apache who mastered the desert environment. * The Seminole who mastered the swamp environment. * The Navajo Code Talker's of the USMC. * The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico who with the help of the Santa Fe Railroad mastered the American tourist.

There are many native Indian tribes in Oreogn. Chinook, Modoc, Klamath, Cayuse, Kalapuya, Nez Perce, Nahankhuotana, Chepenafa, Atfalati, Bannock, Wappato, Siletz, Northern Paiute, Shasta, Skilloot....and on and on.

Yes, the Nez Perce Indians were discriminated against just as most Native Americans were. The Nez Perce just wanted to be left alone to live their lives in peace. The white man broke the treaty just as they had done hundreds of times before. The Nez Perce were friendly towards the whites and tried to keep peace. The whites that lived in the area, looked down on the Nez Perce and thought of them as an inferior race. The ran ruffshod over them constantly.

In Nimipu, the language of the Nez Perce, the word for wolf is hími·n.

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