Nez Perce Tribe: Difference between revisions

<td style="text-align: right;">3,363 enrolled tribal members</td><td style="width: 2px;">{{resize|0%|&nbsp;}}<ref>[http://www.nezperce.org/Main.html Nez Perce Tribal] Web Site</ref>  

<td style="text-align: right;">1,534 on Nez Perce Res.; 83 on Colville Res.</td><td>{{resize|0%|&nbsp;}}<ref>Frederick Webb Hodge. [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/ ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'']. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906.</ref></td>

<td style="text-align: right;">1,437</td><td>{{resize|0%|&nbsp;}}<ref>Frederick Webb Hodge. [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/ ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'']. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906.</ref></td>

<td style="text-align: right;">abt. 3,000</td><td>{{resize|0%|&nbsp;}}<ref>Frederick Webb Hodge. [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/ ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'']. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906.</ref></td>

<td style="text-align: right;">abt. 6,000</td><td>{{resize|0%|&nbsp;}}<ref>Frederick Webb Hodge. [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/ ''Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico'']. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906.</ref></td>

*Francis Haines. The Nez Perces, Tribesmen of the Columbia Palteau. Norman, Ok. University of OK. Press 1955. {{FHL|89277|item|disp=FS Library Book: 970.3 N499h}}

The Bureau of Indian Affairs compiled annual Indian Census Rolls on many of the reservations from 1885 to 1940. They list the names of individuals, their age, and other details about each person enumerated. For more information about these records, [[American Indian Census Rolls|click here]].  

Two churches were particularly active among the Nez Perce. The earliest missionary effort among the tribe was established in 1836 by the Presbyterian Church by Henry Harmon Spalding and his wife, Eliza. Records of this effort are included in the holdings of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia. A later effort was made by the Catholic Church by Father Joseph Cataldo and was known at the [http://www.idahohistory.net/Reference%20Series/0847.pdf St. Joseph's] or Slickpoo Mission. The St. Joseph's Mission records are a part of the holdings of [http://nwda-db.wsulibs.wsu.edu/findaid/ark:/80444/xv10958 Washington State University] in Pullman and of the Pacific Northwest Tribes Mission Collection of the Oregon Province Archives of The Society of Jesus, 1853-1960, housed at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Some of the {{FHL|759736|title-id|disp=registers}} are also on microfilm at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City. Many of the converts to Catholicism are buried in the [https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2334795/slickpoo-cemetery Slickpoo Cemetery] near St. Joseph's.  

During the latter part of the 18th Century and most of the 19th Century, treaties were negotiated between the federal government and individual Indian tribes. The treaties provide helpful information about the history of the tribe, but usually only include the names of those persons who signed the treaty. For more information about treaties, [[American Indian Treaties with the United States|click here]].  

Births and deaths 1920-1938, {{FHL|750690|item|disp=FS Library Film: 574215}}