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Nimiipu Tribe

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The best know Plateau group are the Nimiipuu, which mean the people, but everyone know them as the Nez Perce. Nez Perce is from the French which means “pierced nose,” although that none of the Nez Perce people have their nose pierced. Washington, Oregon, and Idaho was the original region of the Nimiipuu people. Their area also included the Bitterroot Mountains, Snake River, and the Clearwater Valley. There was 70 permanent villages that included 6,000 Nimiipuu living in them during 1805. The area of the Nimiipuu mixed between the mountains and the lower plateau regions. There was two major rivers that cut many deep canyons throughout their region, these rivers were the Columbia and Snake rivers. In the center of their region concluded two …show more content…

These horses let them visit the Plains which lead them to be introduced to different customs, like living in tipis and hunting bison. In 1805, Lewis and Clark came encounter with the Nimiipuu people, which was their first encounter with Americans. They soon approached fur trading with both the British and American companies and started earning interest. The Nimiipuu people had a great relationship with both the British and Americans but later in 1836 that all changed. Christian missionaries started moving into this region and tried to convert the Nimiipuu people. Later on in about 1844, the United States took over the area and became in control of the Nimiipuu people. Those Nimippuu people that converted over to Christianity signed the Walla Walla Council Treaty in 1855. By signing this treaty they gain an enormous amount of their original land base. Later they found that there was gold in this region and started a new treaty asking these people to sign and move off the land. Most people ignored the new treaty and stayed in their original land. That new treaty was called the Thief Treaty because of the illegal reservation boundaries. With all the conflict with the reservation land, the Nimiipuu lost another 542,000 acres of land because in 1893, the government sold it to the white people. In 1927, The Nimiipuu government was formed. Although in 1934, the people voted …show more content…

One of the most famous ones was that there was a monster that was eating all the people. They found a courageous coyote that would have a contest with the monster. The contest was to see who could inhale each other. Unfortunaltey the coyote could not inhale the monster but the monster inhaled the coyote. Luckily the coyote brought knifes to go after the monsters heart. The coyote successfully reached the monster heart and started cutting up parts of the monsters heart to give to the Nimiipuu people. After realizing he had no more parts for the tribe he gave them the blood of the monster hear which lead to making the Nimiipuu tribe more brave, intelligent, and

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