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**List: Nez Percés Ministry
the Bible ( the
Bible )
Nez Percés...
"The Nez Percés Indians were observed
by Lewis and Clark in a
large area around the Columbia River, in what is now north
eastern Oregon. Having received their name from French
traders, because of the nose ornaments worn by some of the
tribe, the Nez Percés caused little trouble for the settlers in the
Pacific Northwest, possibly because of their immediate and
constant interest in the culture and religion of the white man.
The romantic and impressive story of the coming of the Gospel
to the Nez Percés began in 1831, when four chieftains made their
way over the Rockies and were found in the streets of St. Louis
asking, ‘Where is the white man’s Book of
Heaven?’ It was in
response to their plea for books and teachers that Marcus and
Narcissa Prentice Whitman and Samuel Parker made their
seven-month journey over the Great Divide - a journey that
would not only open the Bible for the
Indians, but would also
open the entire region to the American settler.
The Nez Percés spoke a Penutian language, known as
Sahaptin,
a term also used for the related dialects of the Wallawalla,
Yakima, Umatilla, and other tribes. There are now about
1,500 Nez Percés living on a reservation in Idaho." --1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only]
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"1845 Matthew American Board of Commissioners
for Foreign
Missions, Clearwater[, Oregon]
Translated by Henry H. and Eliza S. Spalding of the Oregon
Mission. It was reprinted in 1871 by the ABS."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
The Spaldings were Protestants.]
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"1876 John 1 John American
Presbyterian Board,
Philadelphia
Translated by George Ainslee, Presbyterian my."--1000
Tongues, 1972 [Info only:
{1876 John 2:1-4} unknown; Here, we have corrected the ref.]
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NEZ PERCÉS--1000 Tongues, 1939 [Info only: n.d. John 3:15-16
unknown.]
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