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 ...

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 ...

In a statement, Shannon Wheeler, the Nez Perce’s tribal chair, described the approval as a breach of the promise made to his people 170 years ago, when the U.S. signed a treaty in 1855 ...

In the tribe’s news release, he noted the negative history gold mining has played for the Nez Perce people. Soon after the ink dried on the 1855 treaty, in which the Nez Perce ceded millions of ...

Walla Walla and Nez Perce —who were moved to reservations through the Treaty of 1855 — to that of his own ancestors. A member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, and Apache ...

Several groups, such as the Nez Perce Tribe and Idaho Conservation ... If those resources are not available, he said the tribe’s 1855 treaty rights to fish, hunt and gather in the area would ...

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Reflecting on the past is what needs to happen in order to reaffirm our commitments to one another through the treaty ... “sacred relatives.” The Nez Perce Tribe describes this relationship ...

Much of them are in Central Washington, and were ceded by the Yakama Nation in 1855. (WSU’s main campus in Pullman is also located on what was Nez Perce and Palouse land.) “Let’s learn about ...