Just past the reservation’s border, a billboard greets the driver with an admonition, urging you to “Honor the Treaty of 1855 with the Nez Perce — Breach the Snake River Dams.” The ...

By the time the Nez Perce signed the Treaty of 1855 with the U.S. government, the Wallowa Band was led by Tiwitequis, also known as Old Chief Joseph. Related: A tribal treaty: ‘This was the real ...

As a citizen of the Nez Perce, or Nimíipuu, which means “The People,” I look at gold mining as a symbol of broken promises. In 1855, when my ancestors entered into a treaty with the United ...

Lewis and Clark later gave the Nez Perce a peace medal. The peace did not last. By 1850, more white people moved into the area, leading to greater conflict. That led to the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla.

In direct violation of the 1855 Treaty of Walla Walla, the Nez Perce in 1877 were forced from their 7.5 million-acre homeland to a 750,000-acre reservation in Idaho. For years, the tribe has ...

Nez Perce Tribal Executive Committee Chairman Shannon Wheeler stands on the tribe's newly purchased property near the Wallowa Mountains in Joseph. The land was part of an 1855 treaty that granted ...

At first, the United States recognized the Nez Perce claim to parts of the territories and even signed a treaty in 1855 granting seven-million acres to call their own. That treaty lasted eight years.

The Nez Perce were signatories to the 1855 treaty, also signed by natives of eastern Oregon and Washington. When gold was discovered in Idaho, white miners rushed to the state and either ...

Thousands of hunters applied for 50 licenses, but that isn't why the Nez Perce are here. They don't need licenses. The 1855 treaty that ceded thousands of acres of the tribe's land to the federal ...

Nez Perce leaders withdrew ... comes closer to restoring the promises of sovereignty granted in the treaty. “In 1855, our past leaders were promised powers over our lands by the federal ...