Youth are our future and we are working hard to keep them engaged with the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland this summer, even with our regular programming on pause. We’ve created two take-home activities which you can download and try out.

Children have long loved their dolls, tucked them into miniature cradleboards and dressed them in beaded buckskin dresses, like the one worn by this HANDMADE DOLL. 

KAYA is an AMERICAN GIRL DOLL created in 2002 by the Pleasant Company in partnership with Nez Perce elders, educators, and historians. Her story takes place in the 1700’s - a time before Nez Perce life was influenced by contact with Lewis & Clark. 

This COYOTE PELT was tanned by Irving Watters, Nez Perce. Legends of the mythological character, Coyote, have been passed along by elders for 10,000 years, tying the Nez Perce to this land since the beginning. Through these stories, elders teach spiritual and moral lessons as well as explain how things came to be the way they are.