’aayatom sapo’saapo’s, Nez Perce Woman's Saddle, (c. 1830–1845) Bison hide, cottonwood, pigment, wool, 60 x 32 cm. Collection of the Nez Perce National Historical Park (all images courtesy the Nez ...

The Nez Perce National Historical Park museum and visitor center is on Highway 95 in Spalding, Idaho. Hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Services: There are no services inside the park, but many of the ...

SPALDING, Idaho — The name white settlers gave them was a mistake. The Nez Perce — which loosely translates to “pierced noses” — never practiced nose piercing. Hunters and gatherers, formidable horse ...

Before colonization and the decimation of Indigenous people, Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, lands encompassed 17 million acres that would become parts of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. The Nez Perce ...

NEZ PERCE TRAIL, Idaho - A trail, and its story, snakes through thousands of ponderosa and lodgepole pines high in the Bitterroot Mountains. While most may never get near it, there are those who can ...

Snow-crested summits of northeast Oregon's Wallowa Mountains lord over the emerald-colored fields far below. Melting mountain snows give rise to shimmering rivers that flow across the valley's green ...

Prior to the arrival of European and Mexican explorers, roughly 8,000 American Indians, representing two distinct groups, inhabited Idaho: the Great Basin Shoshone and Bannock tribes of the ...

Stacia Morfin is of medium height, slim, with arched eyebrows and long brown hair separated into two braids, both clasped with panels of red, green, blue and black beads, dressed in regalia that ...

The Nez Perce Tribe is inviting residents of the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley to attend a Nimiipuu 101 presentation on Dec. 1, 2025, from 5-7 p.m. at the Red Wolf Golf Course. Tribal elected officials ...

The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. ˀiméesnim ˀítetp’es, Deer Head Shape Bag, Nez Perce. Courtesy of the Nez Perce National Historical Park.