1. NEZ PERCE

2. The Nez Perce people were warriors and known for their thought out and intelligent strategies in battle.  The Nez Perce people helped Lewis and Clark in their travels in the Northwest. Lewis and Clark recorded how peaceful and helpful the Nez Perce people are, in their journal. 

3. Homes
Tepee (Tipi) Ring
Lodge pole pines

4. Do you know what longhouses were like in Nez Perce
Do you know what longhouses were like in Nez Perce? Longhouses are made of bark because women gathered bark in late spring when it was easier to peel. Bark was used to cover the sides and roof of the longhouses. The poles were tied to trees and bent to make a longhouse.

5. Government
Each village was led by a headman, and was made up of several related, extended families.

6. Food

7. Trade

8. Chief Joseph’s War

9. Tools
Obsidian YNP

10. Clothing
The Nez Perce usually made their clothing out of deerskin. The women usually made their clothing out of mountain sheep skin.

11. Nomadic by season….They traveled with the season to provide food – crops and hunting.
They returned to the same places.
Hunters
Gatherers
Fishers
Farmers