The Nez Perce Horse is a horse breed of the Nez Perce tribe of Idaho. The program began in 1995 in Lapwai, Idaho and is based on crossbreeding the Appaloosa and a Central Asian breed called Akhal-Teke. This program seeks to re-establish the horse culture of the Nez Perce, a proud tradition of selective breeding and horsemanship that was destroyed in the 19th century. The breeding program was financed by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Nez Perce tribe and a nonprofit group called the First Nations Development Institute, which promotes such businesses.
The horses used by the NezPerce, and admired and sought by U.S. Cavalrymen, were generally referred to as the Palouse or NezPercehorse.
NezPerce tribal leaders have issued a history-making directive intended to again create their own horse and also bring horsemanship back to the general tribal population.
NezPerce youths between ages 14 and 21 are eligible to participate in the Young Horsemen Program of horsemanship, management and leadership existing around the horse.
NezPerce is a misnomer given by the interpreter of the Lewis and Clark expedition at the time they first encountered the tribe in 1805.
The NezPerce, like many western Native American tribes, were migratory and would travel with the seasons, according to where the most abundant food was to be found at a given time of year.
In NezPerce, the subject of a sentence, and the object when there is one, can each be marked with for grammatical case, a morpheme that shows the function of the word (compare to English he vs. him).
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