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Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland

A place for cultural life, gathering, and connection to the Wallowa homeland.

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The Wallowa Wild and Scenic River, photographed in May 2017 by the Bureau of Land Management. Community context for this record.
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The Wallowa Wild and Scenic River, photographed in May 2017 by the Bureau of Land Management. Community context for this record.

Bureau of Land Management Oregon and Washington · 2017-05-25 · Public domain · Image & source ↗

The Homeland organization hosts cultural programs and the annual Tamkaliks Celebration. Its grounds and visitor center provide different ways to encounter continuing Nez Perce life.

This is an organization with its own mission, distinct from a tribal government. Its history describes work beginning in 1989.

Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland: The Wallowa homeland today ↗Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland: The history of the Homeland organization ↗

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1989

Beginning of the organization’s work, according to its history.

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Hosts the annual celebrationTamkaliks Celebration
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The wider landscape.

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Wallowa Lake and the mountains, seen from the county park at the north end.View photograph
Wallowa Lake

The lake, in spring

Gary Halvorson, Oregon State Archives16 May 2012
A road, fence, and open prairie on the Zumwalt.View photograph
Zumwalt Prairie

A road across the prairie

Rick Swart, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife2015-11-15
Glacier Peak reflected in Glacier Lake, in the Eagle Cap Wilderness.View photograph
Eagle Cap Wilderness

Glacier Peak, reflected

Matthew Tharp / U.S. Forest Service2012-08-11
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Indigenous life

Tamkaliks Film

From Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · 2025

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Indigenous life

Wenix Red Elk "Áwtni Tk''átat (First Foods)"

From Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · 2021

Video
Indigenous life

tamaalwit: natural law

From Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland · Date unconfirmed

Original accounts

Voices connected to this place

In the organization’s words
“Today, many traditional ways remain part of our tribal culture.”
Nez Perce TribePublication date not stated
The larger story

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The Wallowa Mountains reflected in the lake, photographed from the north-end county park. This landscape photograph does not depict a particular cultural gathering.
Chapter 02 Indigenous homelands

The valley they kept coming home to

The Nez Perce people never stopped knowing this valley as home. Photographs of families coming back to fish in the 1930s, the Tribe’s biologists on the Lostine River today, and a plan that looks a hundred years ahead tell the story of return in pieces. The people it belongs to should tell the rest.

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