Horsemen of the Western Plateaus

Horsemen of the Western Plateaus

The Nez Perce Indians

Sonia Bleeker's Tribes of the Americas
by Sonia Bleeker, Patricia Boodell (Illustrator)
©1957, Item: 86778
Hardcover, 157 pages
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Like all the Nez Perce Indians, young Spotted Salmon was an excellent horseman. He was experience in hunting, too, and when June brought the salmon run to the rivers, he showed his skill in catching the fish for which he had been named. The work and play of his tribe, whose lands were in our Northwest, his courtship of Sunflower Girl, the legends told by his elders about Coyote, the tribal hero -- all these are woven into this lively account of life among the Nez Perce.

The history of these Indians is also presented, from their first contact with white men to the day when the United States government sent away the small surviving remnant of the tribe -- all the was left of many thousands -- to become reservation Indians.

Miss Boodell's accurate and lifelike drawings add to the appeal of this informative book, the eleventh in Miss Bleeker's invaluable series on Indian tribes of the United States.

–From the dust jacket

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