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Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum

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Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Nez Perce County Historical Society & Museum
Phone:
+1 208-743-2535

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 4pm
Wednesday10am - 4pm
Thursday10am - 4pm
Friday10am - 4pm
Saturday10am - 4pm


The Nez Perce are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States for a long time.Members of the Sahaptin language group, the Niimíipuu were the dominant people of the Columbia Plateau for much of that time, especially after acquiring the horses that led them to breed the appaloosa horse in the 18th century. Prior to first contact with Western civilization the Nimiipuu were economically and culturally influential in trade and war, interacting with other indigenous nations in a vast network from the western shores of Oregon and Washington, the high plains of Montana, and the northern Great Basin in southern Idaho and northern Nevada.After first contact, the name Nez Perce was given to the Niimíipuu and the nearby Chinook people by French explorers and trappers. The name means pierced nose, but only the Chinook used that form of decoration.Today they are a federally recognized tribe, the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, and govern their Indian reservation in Idaho through a central government headquartered in Lapwai, Idaho known as the Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee . They are one of five federally recognized tribes in the state of Idaho. Some still speak their traditional language, and the Tribe owns and operates two casinos along the Clearwater River in Idaho in Kamiah, Idaho and outside of Lewiston, Idaho, health clinics, a police force and court, community centers, salmon fisheries, radio station, and other things that promote economic and cultural self-determination.Cut off from most of their horticultural sites throughout the Camas Prairie by an 1863 treaty, confinement to reservations in Idaho, Washington and Oklahoma Indian Territory after the Nez Perce War of 1877, and Dawes Act of 1887 land allotments , the Nez Perce remain as a distinct culture and political economic influence within and outside their reservation. Today, hatching, harvesting and eating salmon is an important cultural and economic strength of the Nez Perce through full ownership or co-management of various salmon fish hatcheries, such as the Kooskia National Fish Hatchery in Kooskia, Idaho or the Dworshak National Fish Hatchery in Orofino, Idaho.
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