Explore: Nez Perce Language

The Nez Perce (/ˌnɛz ˈpɜːrs, ˌnɛs -/ ; autonym in Nez Perce language: nimíipuu, meaning 'we, the people') are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still

Sahaptian language related to the several dialects of Sahaptin (note the spellings -ian vs. -in). Nez Perce comes from the French phrase nez percé, "pierced

107–112. Aoki, Haruo (1966). Nez Percé vowel harmony and proto-Sahaptian vowels. Language, 42, 759-767. Aoki, Haruo (1970). Nez Percé grammar. University of

Joseph the Younger, was a leader of the wal-lam-wat-kain (Wallowa) band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of the

He–Mene Mox Mox (born c. 1855, died August 1935) was a Nez Perce warrior who fought in the Nez Perce War of 1877. In his old age, he decided to give the

Native American language. She developed a written version of the language and printed Bible story lessons and hymns in the Nez Perce language. Her hymnal

the Nez Perce, sħáptənəxʷ. Cognates appear in other Interior Salishan languages, such as Okanagan sʕaptnx 'Nez Perce' or Spokane saʕáptni 'Nez Perce', indictating

their language Nez Perce War, an 1877 war between the Nez Perce tribe and U.S. Government Nez Perce Traditional Site, Wallowa Lake, a Nez Perce cemetery

Monster (in the Nez Perce language timʼnépe) is a geological monument near Kamiah, Idaho that is central to an origin story told by the Nez Perce people. The

role in the culture and diet of indigenous peoples. The Shoshone and Nez Perce were the largest of several tribes that lived along the river by the turn