Also called Nimiipuu. a member of a North American Indian people of the Sahaptin family.
Also called Nimipuutimt. the Sahaptin language of the Nez Perce.
a member of a North American Indian people of the Pacific coast, a tribe of the Sahaptin
the Sahaptin language of this people
First recorded in 1805–15; from French: literally, “pierced nose”
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The Nez Perce Tribe and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation also responded and helped by collecting and scanning transponders on the dead fish.
From BBC ● Apr. 3, 2024
Employees from a local hatchery, members of the Nez Perce tribe and the Union County Sheriff’s Office came to help and to clean up the fish.
From New York Times ● Apr. 3, 2024
Gladstone, who is of Piegan Blackfeet and Nez Perce heritage, is the first Native American actress to be nominated for an Oscar.
From Salon ● Jan. 23, 2024
The Nez Perce Tribe and other litigants contend that dam removal is necessary to prevent extinction of salmon in the Columbia Basin.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
He had fought the Sioux, the Blackfeet, the Nez Perce, the Crows, the Shoshones, and the Piegans.
From The Vanishing Race by Dixon, Joseph Kossuth
They stand alongside the Nez Percé singer Julia Keefe — a songbird of a jazz vocalist, who also fronts a big band — and the Wabanaki bassist, composer and vocalist Mali Obomsawin.
From New York Times ● Feb. 24, 2023
Army in 1877 after the U.S. government had appropriated Nez Percé land.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
In 1871, Arlee, a Nez Percé by birth, acquiesced to the U.S. government’s demands that the Bitterroot Salish relocate.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2018
We sailed through towns called Tensed and Troy, making our way to Orofino, Idaho, home of the Nez Percé Indian Reservation.
From New York Times ● May 20, 2012
I was a scout in the Nez Percé outbreak in 1872.
From Down the Yellowstone by Freeman, Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome)
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