Nez Perce National Historical Park

The paywallup tribe and the Nez Perce tribe have very similar and differnt foods that they hunt for gather. The Nez Perce gathered fruits and vegetables from spring to fall and stored food for winter. During the spring they fished for large amounts of fish. At party's they ate buffalo they also like to make soup. The Nez Perce also gathered onions, carrots, bittroots, blackberries, show berries, huckleberry and nuts. The coastal tribe puyallup fished in both salt and fresh water. They liked to catch salmon, steel heads, trout, flatfish, rock fish, they also gathered clam, crab and oysters.They Gathered berries, nuts, roots, bulb and sprouts and hunted for whales. Based on their location the tribes of the northwest the wore different clothes…

While both the Nez Percé Indians and New York immigrants physically suffered from greed due to a higher power, the New York immigrants were put into a worse situation because of the amount of people that were killed due to the constant exposure of bacteria that led to disease. The Nez Percé Indians struggled with the greed of the government’s desire to own the ancestral land of the Indians. Chief Joesph was the leader of the Nez Percé tribe, Chief Joesph’s goal was to follow in his father’s…

In the Nez Perce culture the trickster took the form of a coyote and was the hero. There was a monster that came and ate all the animals from the earth, but did get the coyote because he tied himself to a mountain and the monster could not reach him. Over time they became friends and the coyote started missing his old friends and wished to visit them. The monster allows the coyote to go into its stomach. While there the coyote builds a fire and cuts the heart out with a knife. Like the myth…

The Nez Perce met William Clark and Meriwether Lewis as they were performing their journey across North America in 1805. This meeting went extraordinarily well and both sides were satisfied by the exchanges of guns, buffalo meat and horses. The two sides made trade agreements and the travelers even entrusted the Nez Perce with their horses as they traveled by boat to the Pacific Ocean. The early 19th century was a very prosperous time for the Nez Perce as they enjoyed the fruits of the fur trade…

The Nez Perce language, alternatively called Nuumiipuutimt or Nuumiipuutímt, is classified as a Sahaptin language. It is located in Kamiah and Lapwai, Idaho which is on the Nez Perce Reservation. It is also spoken in the Colville Reservation in Washington using the Upriver dialect of this language as well as in the Umatilla Reservation in Oregon using the Downriver dialect. Nez Perce uses the Latin script to write in their language. According to a 2000 census, the Nez Perce language has an…

The Nez Perce was one of the most powerful tribes in the Pacific Northwest and was the friendly to the whites. ("Chief Joseph"1). Most of their tribe was baptized as Christians. Joseph the Elder was the first Nez Perce to convert to Christianity. In 1855, he even helped George Washington's territorial governor set up a Nez Perce reservation that stretched from Oregon into Idaho. ("Chief Joseph" 1 PBS.org) Then in 1863, they found gold in the mines where the Nez Perce reservation was located. The…

The book I will be analyzing is, Kopet: A Documentary Narrative of Chief Joseph’s Last Year’s by M. Gidley. It was published in 1981 in Seattle, Washington, United States of America. This book is split up into three different sections: 1. Starting Out from the Meany Papers An introduction 2. Chief Joseph of the Nez Peres A chronology 3. White Witnesses to Chief Joseph’s End A Narrative This book discusses the last few years of Chief Joseph’s life, the white people…

Before the Nez Perce Indians were created it was said that animals inhabited the world. Animals had qualities that made them act like humans. The main character in the Nez Perce story was a Coyote. “A trickster and transformer” The story is. “One day Coyote learned that all the animals were being devoured by a fearsome monster who dwelled near present-day Kamiah on the Clearwater River. Tricking the monster into swallowing him, Coyote started a fire inside the monster’s belly and slew him by…

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