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	Emerald Racing Fan Zone - Horse Tales
		The horses used by the Nez Perce, and admired and sought by U.S. Cavalrymen, were generally referred to as the Palouse or Nez Perce horse.
		Nez Perce tribal leaders have issued a history-making directive intended to again create their own horse and also bring horsemanship back to the general tribal population.
		Nez Perce youths between ages 14 and 21 are eligible to participate in the Young Horsemen Program of horsemanship, management and leadership existing around the horse.
	www.emeraldracing.com /boone120699.html (1577 words)

	Nez PercÃ© - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nez Perce is a misnomer given by the interpreter of the Lewis and Clark expedition at the time they first encountered the tribe in 1805.
		The Nez Perce, like many western Native American tribes, were migratory and would travel with the seasons, according to where the most abundant food was to be found at a given time of year.
		In Nez Perce, the subject of a sentence, and the object when there is one, can each be marked with for grammatical case, a morpheme that shows the function of the word (compare to English he vs. him).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nez_Perce (819 words)

	Nez Perce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Nez Perce or Nez Percé ( pronounced /n3z pVrs/, or /ne perse'/ as in French) are a tribe of Native Americans who inhabited the Pacific Northwest region of North America and adjoining regions at the time of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
		The Nez Perce language is a branch of the Sahaptian (spelled -ian) family, which also includes several dialects of Sahaptin (spelled -in).
		In Nez Perce, the subject of a sentence and the object can each be marked with a morpheme called a case-marker.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/N/Nez-Perce.htm (947 words)

	Nez
		Nez Perce County, Idaho Nez Perce County is a Lewiston.
		Nez Perce Horse The Nez Perce Horse is a horse breed of the appaloosa and a Central Asian breed called akhal-teke.
		Nez Perce Wars The Nez Perce Wars were a series of United States government.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/nez.html (106 words)

	Nez Perce program creates a breed apart : ICT [2003/10/30]
		Rudy Shebala, a Navajo and skilled horseman who is married to a Nez Perce woman, was selected as director and he recruited 20 young people between the ages of 14 and 21 as the first group in the program.
		The Appaloosa Horse Club was founded in 1938 and a check on their records of horses registered today showed only two mares that trace back to the tribe.
		Another consideration was to select from wild horse herds in the thought that they might be more similar to the horses brought from Spain several hundred years ago and from which the horses of the early 1800s were related.
	indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1067542130 (1098 words)

	::: American Indians of the Pacific Northwest Collection :::
		Nez Perce territory centered on the middle Snake and Clearwater rivers and the northern portion of the Salmon River basin in central Idaho.
		Nez Perce territory was marked by a diverse flora and fauna, as well as by temperature and precipitation patterns reflecting sharp variations in elevation.
		Most survivors of the Nez Perce War of 1877, who were sent to Oklahoma after their defeat at the Battle of Bear Paw, returned to the northwest in 1885 to reside on the Colville Reservation in Washington.
	content.lib.washington.edu /aipnw/walker.html (4450 words)

	Nez Perce Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		As with other tribes, the Nez perce did not limit their fishing to salmon (though salmon species were among the most important fish utilized) but also fished for trout, suckers, sturgeon and eels.
		Nez Perce related both to the Plains cultures of the east and the Sahaptin cultures of the west.
		Today, the Nez Perce are members of the four "treaty tribes" of the Columbia River (the others are the confederated tribes of the Umatilla, Yakama, and Warm Spring).
	www.ccrh.org /comm/river/profile/nezperce.htm (420 words)

	A.A.A - History of the Breed
		These horses were not identified as Appaloosas in the "Old World," but were named according to the region where they were bred-- or for their colour.
		Once they were introduced to America the Appaloosa horse began what was arguably their most famous period, as horses prized by the Nez Perce Indians.
		After the Nez Perce surrender, the horses not taken as spoils of war by the U.S. Cavalry were dispersed amongst white settlers or left to wander.
	www.appaloosa.org.au /History.asp (1075 words)

	The Appaloosa - Horse of the Nez Perce
		In the early to mid-1700’s, the Nez Perce was introduced to the horse.
		The horse became a form of personal wealth, an item of trade, a means of transportation, an ally on the hunt or warpath, a treasure to be stolen or protected, and a way of traveling distances and to places formerly unheard of.
		Horses raised by the Nez Perce were known to be sure-footed, hard-hoofed, and durable, with endless stamina and endurance.
	www.anamp.org /nescp_curriculum/grade4_appaloosa.html (1125 words)

	The Flight of the Nez Perce - Timeline
		Stevens, governor of Washington Territory, negotiates a treaty with the Nez Perce reserving 7,000,000 acres of Idaho, Washington and Oregon for the tribe.
		Nez Perce warriors harry the volunteers at Misery Hill, west of the South Fork of the Clearwater.
		Nez Perce scouts capture John Shively in the Lower Geyser Basin in Yellowstone National Park whole less than a half a mile away the Radersburg tourists are unaware of what is happening.
	www.ourheritage.net /index_page_stuff/Following_Trails/Chief_Joseph/Chief_Joseph_Timeline.html (2972 words)

	ChiefJoseph
		Although the Nez Percés had not agreed to the loss of their lands, the government insisted they be confined within the new boundaries.
		The Nez Percés crossed the Missouri River in northern Montana on September 23.
		In 1885 some of the Nez Percés were allowed to move to the Lapwai Reservation in Idaho, not far from the Wallowa Valley, but Joseph and others were sent to the Colville Reservation in northeastern Washington.
	famousamericanindians4.homestead.com /ChiefJoseph.html (652 words)

	Appaloosa History
		Although the Nez Perce' were captured and taken to a reservation, their horses lost in the mountains or killed by soldiers, a few Appaloosas remained.
		Nez Perce' men grieved over their lost warhorses, while warhorses with fallen warriors went on to fight without them.
		The Appaloosa horse, with all of her characteristics so important to those whose lives depended upon her, is a treasure--one that needs to be guarded and cherished for as long as we all are here.
	www.angelfire.com /ut2/sbr/apphistory.html (952 words)

	Native American - Nez Perce - Chief Joseph
		The Nez Perce, the largest ethnic group in the Columbia Plateau, were closely related to the Cayuse, Tenino and Umatilla tribes to their west.
		The Nez Perce were also heavily influenced by their Plains neighbors to the east.
		All the Nez Perce made friends with Lewis and Clark and agreed to let them pass through their country and never to make war on white men.
	www.juntosociety.com /native/nezperce.htm (3507 words)

	Nez Perce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Nez Perce is a misnomer given by the interpreter of the Lewis and Clark expedition team of 1805.
		The Nez Perce territory was approximately 17 million acres.
		The Nez Perce were well known to breed the Appaloosa horse.
	www.ontalink.com /native_americans/nez_perce.html (152 words)

	ICT [2003/10/30] Nez Perce program creates a breed apart
		Rudy Shebala, a Navajo and skilled horseman who is married to a Nez Perce woman, was selected as director and he recruited 20 young people between the ages of 14 and 21 as the first group in the program.
		The Appaloosa Horse Club was founded in 1938 and a check on their records of horses registered today showed only two mares that trace back to the tribe.
		Another consideration was to select from wild horse herds in the thought that they might be more similar to the horses brought from Spain several hundred years ago and from which the horses of the early 1800s were related.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1067542130 (1014 words)

	Learn about the history and culture of the Nez Perce Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The Nez Perce Indians are a tribe that lived in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
		Although the Nez Perce Indians were known as warriors and were strategic in battle, the Lewis and Clark expedition recorded them as a helpful tribe that was very peaceful.
		The Nez Perce horse is a crossbreed of the Appaloosa and the Asian breed Akhal-Teke.
	www.indians.org /articles/nez-perce-indians.html (333 words)

	The Golden Riders 4-H Horse Club of Bay County, Michigan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Meriwether Lewis of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition to the American West noted of the grand horses of the Nez Perce in a February 15, 1806 journal entry.
		"Their horses appear to be of an excellent race: they are lofty, elegantly formed, active and durable: in short many of them look like fine English horses and would make a figure in any country".
		The Young Horsemen Project is dedicated to recruiting Nez Perce youth, ages 14-21, to learn the art of good horsemanship, horse management practices and the economic opportunities via horses.
	www.thearmory.net /4H/nezperce.html (150 words)

	Nez Perce History Jackson Sundown
		The Nez Perce War of 1877 began and Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn was 14 years old.
		Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn and Sam Tilden (Suhm-Keen) both were assigned to attend to the horses in the evening and herd the horses while the tribe decamped.
		After the Nez Perce war ended Waaya-Tonah-Toesits-Kahn retreated to Canada with a small band of cold, hungry and injured Nez Perce.
	www.nezperce.org /History/JacksonSundown.htm (612 words)

	Appaloosa Horse Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Perce Indians of the inland Northwest deserve much of the credit for the Appaloosa horses we have today.
		While the Nez Perce never called their spotted horses "Appaloosas," the breed’s name comes from either the Palouse River, which flows through the region of eastern Washington and north Idaho where the horses were known to be plentiful or from the Palouse Tribe, whose main village was situated on the Palouse River.
		Appaloosa Horse Club is the breed registry serving an association of members dedicated to collecting, recording and preserving the history and integrity of the breed; improving, enhancing, and promoting the Appaloosa, and honoring the tradition, history and heritage of the breed.
	www.imh.org /imh/bw/appa.html (1440 words)

	History of the Spotted Horse
		Horses were so important to his mission that pasture lands or Indian villages with stored food were always his intermediate destinations.
		Horses were kept fit and Captains were kept aware of the proximity of other divisions in case of attack.
		The Comanche became a source of horses for tribes to the north, obtaining their own horses by raids on the Spanish and Americans in New Mexico and Texas and in turn being raided by the Arapaho and Cheyenne from the north (Stone 1999: 152-153).
	www.appaloosa-crossing.com /history101.htm (3677 words)

	Nez Perce Literature
		The affairs of the Nez Perce Tribe shall be administered by a Tribal Executive Committee (NPTEC), consisting of nine members elected by the Tribal General Council.
		The NPTEC is obligated to protect the health and welfare of the Nez Perce people.Ý This means protecting and preserving treaty rights and tribal sovereignty, Nez Perce culture, and the general environment of the reservation.Ý Tribal headquarters are located in Lapwai, Idaho.
		There is a Chief Joseph Days rodeo that some Nez Perce began attending about ten years ago, setting up a powwow on the grounds.
	www.indigenouspeople.net /nezperce.htm (733 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project
		The horse has a long sleek body, narrow chest and long neck and legs, and is well adapted to the distance travel of its former desert homeland.
		With the success of the Nez Perce Horse Registry, the Nimíipuu horse of the 21st Century is thus once again akin to its ancestor of the 18th Century.
		Together with the Nez Perce Young Horsemen Program, established in 1994, the Nimíipuu have an active academic, equestrian and employment program for the youth of the tribe to complement their breeding enterprise.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=34&ObjectID=85 (367 words)

	Appaloosa Horses & Nez Perce Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Prominent anthropologists have theorized that the Nez Perce and other Pacific Northwest tribes may have migrated across a land bridge that may have existed between the Asian and North American Continents somewhere near the Bering Straits off the coast of Alaska shortly after the last glaciers on the North American Continent began to recede.
		During the 1800s, the Nez Perce were considered to be wealthy people by any standard you would care to measure wealth.
		One of the ranchers remarked to his companions as he stood gazing at a meadow on the slopes of Joseph Canyon that "there must be 10,000 head of horses in that meadow." In July of 1872 Joseph began a diplomatic initiative working for the removal of settlers from Joseph's ancestral lands in the Wallowas.
	www.imt.net /~stan/npedu13a.html (923 words)

	Nez Perce Horse
		The Nez Perce Horse is a horse breed of the Nez Perce tribe of Idaho.
		This program seeks to re-establish the horse culture of the Nez Perce, a proud tradition of selective breeding and horsemanship that was destroyed in the 19th century.
		Paint horses are characterized by a certain percentage of white hair over unpigmented skin combined with some other color.
	www.mypets.net.au /flex/nez_perce_horse/381/1 (367 words)

	Native Americans - Nez Perce
		The Nez Perc ceded (1855) a large part of their territory to the United States.
		The Nez Perc won several engagements, notably one at Big Hole, Mont., but 30 mi (48 km) short of the Canadian border they were trapped in a cul-de-sac by troops under Gen. Nelson A. Miles and forced to surrender.
		This a biography of Chief Joseph, legendary chief of the Nez Perce.
	www.nativeamericans.com /NezPerce.htm (1079 words)

	Horse Slaughter Camp
		After encamping last evening, I investigated the case of the Indian prisoner suspected of having been engaged in the murder of two miners; the fact of his guilt was established beyond doubt, and he was hung at sunset.
		It was a crime at this time on the frontier to kill a horse, but this was war where all could be fair.
		At first they led the horses down to the river gravel bar, but it became too time consuming so they ended up shooting them in the corral constructed by banks, the river and a rope fence on the east side where there was no other containment naturally available.
	www.spokaneoutdoors.com /horsesc.htm (1007 words)

	Nez Perce NHP: Nez Perce Summer, 1877 (Chapter 12)
		Word of the presence of the village ahead, coupled with reports that the Nez Perces might already be fleeing to the north, impelled Miles to hurry his troops forward.
		[3] Eventually, the command, still moving northwesterly, crested the low divide from which the Nez Perce horse herd could be seen on the flat west of Snake Creek; some witnesses reported seeing parts of the village, yet two miles away, as the troops started the gentle descent toward the bottom.
		As the captain lay prostrate near his dead horse, his company moving to the rear, Herwood rode his own animal between the Nez Perces and the officer, drawing the warriors' attention to himself while Welch delivered a covering fire until Godfrey could regain his feet.
	www.nps.gov /archive/nepe/greene/chap12.htm (1626 words)

	History
		Because the Nez Perce were semi-nomadic people, the horse was not as much a necessity as it was a luxury.
		Before the horse the Nez Perce used dogs as pack animals, so it was natural that first use of the horse was the same.
		Within a generation of acquiring horses the Nez Perce life style changed to incorporate increased trade with neighboring tribes and an annual trip to the Great Plains to hunt buffalo.
	www.class.uidaho.edu /arch499/nonwest/Nez_Perce/he_history.htm (413 words)

	Gaited Appaloosa
		The horse moves with a rolling motion of the shoulders and hips, the motion of the horse is absorbed in its back and loins giving the rider a smooth, gliding ride.
		These horses were not a breed but were prized for their natural broken pace that forced any other horse to trot or lope to keep up.
		It is known that they valued horses that could move out well, and rode with a quirt to urge their horses to take the shuffle gait.
	www.gaitedhorse.com /appaloosa1.htm (1212 words)

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