Turtle Island Storytellers: Idaho

Rose Ann Abrahamson (Lemhi Shoshone)

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Allen Pinkham

Allen Pinkham (Nimiipuu)

Well, my English name is Allen Pinkham. We call ourselves Nimiipuu. We've got hung with this Nez Perce. It's a French term, meaning Pierced Nose, which is incorrect. But we call ourselves Nimiipuu and Children of the Coyote. And so somehow we got hung with this Nez Perce name, anyways...more

   

Nakia Williamson-Cloud

My name is Nakia Williamson. The focus of my work is basically to perpetuate ideas and thoughts of the Nez Perce people of my own family and the elders that I've been able to be around, which is sometimes counter to what the outside culture sees the function of art being...more

   
Diane Mallickan

Diane Mallickan

My grandparents are Shoshone Paiute. So I have a lot of family down in California and Nevada, and my mother was Nez Perce. So we were raised actually in both places. We lived in the Lochsa area up here. That's all National Forest in there. We spent our winters up here and our summers...more

   
Josiah Pinkham

Josiah Pinkham

My name is Josiah Black Eagle Pinkham. I'm a member of the Nez Perce tribe. I was born on the Yakama Reservation, but shortly after birth raised on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. That's the only place that I've basically gone to school as far as my formal non-traditional education...more

   
James Spencer

James Spencer

I'm James Spencer and I'm from the Nez Perce tribe and I also have blood ties to the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Ojibwa. I'm a storyteller, flute player and I do a lot of the native crafts. I focus a lot on the stories because they're very important to our people. ...more

   
Andre' Picard

Andre' Picard

Andre L Picard, from Lapwai, Idaho, is aNez Perce Nation member, 27 years old, married and dad of two. Plays Native American flute, singer and drummer. Musical achievements: featured on Smoke Signals, featured on over seven CDs including two which won at the Native American Music Industry Awards....more

   
Angel Sobotta

Angel Sobotta

Good day, everybody. (ta'c halaxp) 'iin wen'ikise Angel Sobotta. ('iinim titooqan wen'iikt wees, ta-lalt-lilpt - Sunset. My name's Angel Sobotta and my Indian name is Ta-lalt-lilpt - Sunset. ('iin wees) Nimiipuu. I am Nimiipuu, the Nez Perce. Nimiipuu is our name that we call ourselves, and it means ‘the people.'. ..more

   
Rosa Yearout

Rosa Yearout

My name is Rosa Yearout in English and my Nez Perce name is Wi'cesa, which is translated as “Born and Reborn.” This is the name that my mother, Rena Katherine Ramsey, had and she had received that from her grandmother, Wicesa. My maiden name was Spencer...more

 



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