I am of this land. It holds my heart.
This site is dedicated to capturing the beauty of the Country the Nez Perce once roamed.
[This map via David Comer @ rootsweb.com]
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~idreserv/npmap.html
The actual Nez Perce Reseveration is, today, a fraction of the lands the Nez Perce traversed.
Landscape of Imagination
“To understand the Nez Perce people you must first understand their landscape. Legends of their cultural ties to land run as deep as the canyons of the nearby Clearwater River. It’s a land defined by weather, etched by rivers and freed from time. The land holds the answers; provides the sustenance. Even the traditional Nez Perce calendar is interwoven with the surrounding landscape. Ah-Pah-Ahl, the time for digging khouse roots, is known to us as May. Wa-Wa-Mai-Khal, the season when the Chinook salmon migrate to the headwaters to spawn, is the month known to us as August. Ha-Oo-Khoy, when new life begins in cow elk, is familiar to us as December. Whatever season it is, the Nez Perce respect the landscape and all living things.”
