Nez Perce National Historical Park links widely separated sites of deep significance to the Nez Perce, including historic villages, battlefields, and legend sites, across both time and territory. Firmly connected to homeland, the Nez Perce are a dynamic people who for thousands of years traveled seasonally between the prairies and river valleys. This lifestyle was interrupted in 1877, when treaties forced bands from their homes in Oregon and Idaho and war erupted. Today the 1,170-mile Nez Perce (Nee-Me-Poo) National Historic Trail connects those events to a longer story of an encounter between two strong nations, from the 1805 meeting with Lewis and Clark, to the conflicts that led to the 1877 war, to the divisions and healing processes going on today, offering a different lens on this shared history of the landscape.