Nez Perce Beaded Child's Vest, ca. 1900 Nez Perce Beaded Child's Vest, ca. 1900 Share Appraiser Bruce M. Shackelford ...

After nearly two centuries, the beadwork embellishing the sleeves and fringes of a woman’s buckskin dress has faded. The cradleboard, which once secured a Nez Perce baby safely to its mother’s ...

JOSEPH — Quincy Ellenwood smiled as a pair of young Nez Perce men rode their horses across a hay field in Joseph Thursday, July 29. Their pace — slow and steady — quickened without warning ...

AM’SÁAXPA, Wallowa County, Oregon — They were exiled from this place during the Nez Perce War in 1877, driven from their homes and ancestral lands by U.S. soldiers. But in a triumphal return ...

KOBER ARRIVED ON THE NEZ PERCE RESERVATION TWO WEEKS AFTER THE BATTLE. THE PREVALENCE OF "CHIEF JOSEPH" ARTIFACTS IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS, THE EUROPEAN CUT AND DECORATION OF GARMENT, AND THE ...

One hundred twenty-one years after 2nd Lt. Harry Lee Bailey picked them up in a Nez Perce village in July 1877, and seven decades after he donated them to the Allen County Historical Society, the ...

Earlier Thursday afternoon, Nicholas Umphenour attended the hearing through Zoom after being indicted by the grand jury of Nez Perce County for first-degree murder.

Then, in 1855, the Nez Perce agreed to give the U.S. government their tribal land, so long as it was protected as the tribe’s exclusive reservation, according the Nez Perce Tribe’s website.

Now that the Nez Perce war has ended in victory, thanks to the energy and courage of our much-enduring Army, it is worth while, before it passes out of mind, to ask why it was fought. View Full ...

A Columbia River Plateau contour-beaded bag (left) and a Nez Perce beaded vest, both more than 100 years old.

Buckskin pants with the same traditional Nez Perce beadwork in pink and green with geometric pattern Traditional moccasins: worn for more agile combat and handcrafted from raw materials ...