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Since last March, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy Joseph P. Kalt and Assistant Professor of Public Policy Keith G. Allred have met with and instructed a group of four representatives from the Nez Perce tribe and four from the North Central Idaho Jurisdictional Alliance, a collection of 23 local Idaho districts and cities...
This Intergovernmental Working Group (IWG) drew up a “Memorandum of Understanding” that stresses the desire to settle jurisdictional conflicts between the Nez Perce tribe and the local governments without resorting to litigation. It also encourages collaboration between the two institutions in any projects that could be accomplished jointly...
Allred said about three-quarters of the residents on the Nez Perce reservation are not members of the tribe, which has resulted in jurisdictional clashes between tribal and city officials...
...traces of Indian tribes. We leave Saddle Camp shortly after dawn, while the snow is still firm, and walk 4 miles up to the Smoking Place, a peak with a 360[degree] view that was sacred to the Indians and was graced then--as now--with stone cairns. The Nez Perce who guided the expedition's return in June 1806 insisted they stop at the peak and smoke a pipe. Lewis was enraptured: "From this place we had an extencive view of these Stupendeous Mountains--from which to one unacquainted with them it would have Seemed impossible ever to have...
When I get off the trail, Erwin Myles, head of natural resources for the Nez Perce, is waiting for me. We go salmon fishing together--his tribe has fishing rights on the Rapid River, part of the Columbia River system. Like many Indians, Myles is ambivalent about celebrating the discoveries of Lewis and Clark. But compared with the vandals who desecrated the Smoking Place, he sees the two captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect...