History of the Nez Percés, a sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southwestern Washington, the Nez Perces were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe which hunted on the Plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture. ... They were outstanding horsemen, and perhaps their most notable accomplishments were in horse breeding and in their development, through selective...

"War-Path and Bivouac is a stirring and detailed account of the Dakota Indian wars of 1876 and the Nez Perce Indian wars of 1877."--Back cover.

"In this new installment in his acclaimed series of novels examining the collisions between Native Americans and European colonizers, William T. Vollmann tells the story of the Nez Perce War, with flashbacks to the Civil War. Defrauded and intimidated at every turn, the Nez Perces finally went on the warpath in 1877, subjecting the U.S. Army to its greatest defeat since Little Big Horn as they fled from northeast Oregon across Montana to the Canadian...

Although mute since the death of his parents in a fire, a young Nez Percé Indian boy has a happy and adventurous life with his adopted family until the growing conflict between the white man and the Indians erupts into war in the summer of 1877 and changes his life forever.

Part historical narrative, part travelogue, and part environmental plea, this book recounts an astonishing journey. Joseph, chief of the peaceable Nez Percé band in Oregon's Wallowa Valley, had long sworn to uphold the dying words of his father: "This country holds your father's body. Never sell the bones of your mother and your father." Yet, in 1877, as the U.S. government confined the tribe to ever smaller reservations, the fateful decision of...

While looking for Steps High, the horse that had been stolen from her, Kaya faces danger from a sudden mountain fire. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percae Indians.

Still grieving over the death of her hero, and missing her stolen horse and kidnapped younger sister, Kaya tries to earn the trust of a lone and starving dog who is about to have puppies. Includes historical notes on Nez Percé children.