The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. ˀiméesnim ˀítetp’es, Deer Head Shape Bag, Nez Perce. Courtesy of the Nez Perce National Historical Park.

Pinkham, a former Nez Perce tribal chairman and storyteller, first learned of it around 1998, while serving on the board of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., amid ...

John Miller SPALDING, Idaho — From the rolling Clearwater Valley to New York City's concrete canyons, a silver medal that may have been given to a Nez Perce Indian chief by Lewis and Clark in 1806 has ...

SPALDING, Idaho -- -- SPALDING, Idaho -- From the rolling Clearwater Valley to New York City's concrete canyons, a silver medal perhaps given to a Nez Perce Indian chief by Lewis and Clark in 1806 as ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Luisita L. and Franz H. Denghausen Endowment, Margery and Edgar Masinter, Kevin and Lisa McGovern, and Bernie Stadiem ...

Sand Creek Massacre: 150 Year Remembrance, jointly sponsored by the National Park Service and the National Museum of the American Indian, is a one day symposium that commemorates the sesquicentennial ...