NEZ PERCE

Nez Perce, "Pierced Noses," who called themselves Nimipu, " People" were hunters, gatherers, fishermen, and horsemen of the northern plateau region around the Snake and Salmon Rivers. Settlement pressures and federal prosecution drive them off much of their homeland. Their tribal centres today are the Nez Perce Reservation near Lapwai, Idaho, and the Colville Reservation near Nespelem, Washington.