The sun dawns at the Big Hole Battlefield, above, and lights the teepee poles that represent almost 90 lodges where Nez Perce slept. The U.S. Cavalry attacked the village at dawn on Aug. 9, 1877.

GARDINER - Idaho's Nez Perce tribe wants to expand its bison hunt in Montana, but state wildlife officials say the tribe is struggling to properly manage its current hunt, making it difficult to agree ...

LAPWAI, Idaho — Redwing Two Moons hung on to the reins as the exotic horse raced around a small circular corral. Rarely ridden, the horse known as Yellowhand was refusing to take orders from the ...

THE LAST INDIAN WAR: The Nez Perce Story. By Elliott West. Oxford University Press. 321 pages. $27.95. Reconstruction ended in 1877, and historians use that as a bookend of the Civil War period. The ...