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
In an interview with the New York Times, the actor said that she has always felt like she's existed in-between because of her mixed-race heritage which is comprised of Blackfeet and Nez Perce and white.
From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2024
Under it, federal technical assistance would be provided to the Yakama, Nez Perce, Umatilla and Warm Springs tribes to develop and deploy “clean, renewable socially-just energy resources” in the region.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
It grows in great abundance in the country of the Nez Perce Indians, who eat great quantities of it, and these Indians are called by the Snake Indians the "Thoig A-rik-ka," or "Cowse-eaters."
From The Discovery of Yellowstone Park by Langford, Nathaniel Pitt
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
But in 1911 the 21-year-old George competed against the fiercest cowboys in the Northwest: the Nez Percé Indian Jackson Sundown and the white rancher John Spain.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2019
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
He had some trouble in making his meaning clear to Two Arrows, and the ambitious young Nez Percé was in precisely the frame of mind to agree with him.
From Two Arrows A Story of Red and White by Stoddard, William Osborn
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