The Nez Perce War erupted in 1877 after decades of broken treaties, stolen land, and confrontations between settlers and the Nez Perce people. At the center of this struggle was Chief Joseph, a leader ...

Dr. Roberta “Robbie” Tawlikitsanmay’ Paul (Woman of the Forest) recently published “Listening to the Birds: A Nez Perce Woman ...

"In the fall of 1877, Nez Perce (Nimiipuu) Indians were desperately fleeing U.S. Army troops. After a 1,700-mile journey across Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana, the Nez Perces headed for the Canadian ...

The dreamers -- A willing exile -- New beginnings -- Quite good friends -- Winding waters -- The wilderness of American power -- Adonis in blue -- Wind blowing -- A sharp-sighted heart -- Aloft -- ...

JOSEPH, Ore. -- More than a century after Chief Joseph delivered one of the most heartbreaking surrender speeches in history, the Nez Perce Indians are girding for battle again -- this time a legal ...

Sept. 21 is the centennial of the death of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. His grave, on a hill at the edge of the dusty little Native American village of Nespelem, 16 miles north of Grand Coulee Dam, ...

JOSEPH, Ore. -- Tribes have filed challenges to a planned upscale development on 62 acres at the foot of the Wallowa Mountains, a region where a band of Nez Perce lived until they were forced out by ...

On Oct. 5, 1877, Chief Joseph, exhausted and disheartened, surrendered in the Bears Paw Mountains of Montana, 40 miles south of Canada. Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain was born in 1840 in the ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Nez Perce tribal elder Horace Axtell sang a blessing song Tuesday at Bozeman's Chief Joseph ...

THE NEZ PERCE INDIANS AND THE OPENING OF THE NORTHWEST by Alvin M. Josephy Jr. 705 pages. Yale University Press. $12.50. Chief Joseph was splendid in defeat. When he came riding into the white man’s ...