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  • "Perce," said Jim as the sloop rose and sank on the swells on her way over to Seal Island, "if you won't think me impertinent, I'd like to ask you a question."

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • "Perce," said he, "you certainly put up a great fight and saved your fish.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • The great Native American of the Nez Perce tribe, Chief Joseph, said, "It is easy to laugh at what you don't understand."

    Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010

  • About 85% of the 550 students in the Lapwai, Idaho, school district live on the Nez Perce reservation nearby, says Terry Smith, an administrator there.

    Schools get shortchanged in Federal Impact Aid 2011

  • The great Native American of the Nez Perce tribe, Chief Joseph, said, "It is easy to laugh at what you don't understand."

    Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010

  • The great Native American of the Nez Perce tribe, Chief Joseph, said, "It is easy to laugh at what you don't understand."

    Kristen Houghton: Happiness Is ... Polygamy? Kristen Houghton 2010

  • The route to the pass is one of the West's most scenic, full of twisting switchbacks, steep hillsides and solitude as it skirts the Nez Perce Indian reservation and the rushing Lochsa River.

    Idaho Shortcut Stalls Global Trek Joel Millman 2010

  • About 85% of the 550 students in the Lapwai, Idaho, school district live on the Nez Perce reservation nearby, says Terry Smith, an administrator there.

    Schools get shortchanged in Federal Impact Aid 2011

  • "Art of the Native Americans: The Thaw Collection," much of which normally resides in Cooperstown, N.Y., spans 2,00 0 years and dozens of elegant objects, from baskets woven by California's Karuk tribe to a fiery ceremonial horse mask once worn by the Nez Perce.

    The Short List 2010

  • I was attempting the Grand Teton Traverse, which starts in the Lupine Meadow trailhead at 6,700 feet, climbs up to Teewinot and then follows a convoluted ridgeline to Nez Perce.

    Summit Meetings Michael J. Ybarra 2011

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