Spanish Peaks Library District

A discussion of the history, culture, and contemporary life of the Nez Perce Indians.

Chronicles the story of the Nez Percé Indians using firsthand accounts of historical events, traditional Nez Perce folktales, and important religious beliefs.

Do them no harm! : an interpretation of Lewis and Clark Expedition among the Nez Perce Indians.

Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce speaks with great dignity, clarity and eloquence of his life, of promises made and broken, of humankind's relationship to the earth, and of the oneness of all peoples during an 1879 trip to Washington D.C.

"This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877." "And at the center of this history - perhaps even more relevant today than at the original publication of this classic volume - is the confrontation of the Indian and non-Indian during this nation's,...

Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, this book recounts an astonishing journey. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Perce band in Oregon's Wallowa Valley, had long sworn to uphold the dying words of his father: "This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your mother and your father." Yet, in 1877, as the U.S. government confined the tribe to ever smaller reservations, the fateful decision of several...