The goal was to create an event that would welcome back the Nez Perce, more than a century after the U.S. government exiled them from the Wallowa Valley. There are nine federally recognized ...

SIERRA: The Nez Perce lived in the Wallowa Valley for thousands of years, but their lives were upended in the late 19th century.

“BLOODLINES: Nez Perce Art” opened recently at the Josephy Center for Arts and Culture in Joseph, in the valley the Wallowa Band Nez Perce people have called home since time immemoria ...

The Nez Perce had no single leader ... The largest of the non-treaty bands lived in Oregon’s Wallowa Valley. The band’s leader, known as Old Chief Joseph to the early missionaries, marked ...

And that certainly fits in with the work the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland ... nontribal people that seeks to bring Wallowa Band culture back to the Wallowa Valley. “We’re such a unique ...

SIERRA: The Nez Perce lived in the Wallowa Valley for thousands of years, but their lives were upended in the late 19th century. The Wallowa band was one of more than a dozen groups who lived ...

The Nez Perce tribe has resumed its annual powwows after canceling them for the pandemic. They are an important way for the tribe to assert its presence in northeastern Oregon.