Nez Perce
Indigenous peoples of North America
Nez Perce
The Nez Perce ( NEZ-purse); autonym in Nez Perce: nimíipuu, meaning 'we, the people') are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who still live on a fraction of their ancestral lands on the southeastern Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest. This region has been occupied for at least 11,500 years. Members of the Sahaptin language group, the Nimíipuu were the dominant people of the Columbia Plateau for much of that time, especially after acquiring the horses that led them to breed the Appaloosa horse in the 18th century. Appaloosa horses were the only horses generally available in that time period. Prior to first contact with European colonial people the Nimíipuu were economically and culturally influential in trade and war, interacting with other indigenous nations in a vast network from the western shores of Oregon and Washington, the high plains of Montana, and the northern Great Basin in southern Idaho and northern Nevada. French explorers and trappers indiscriminately used and...
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