Editing Kamiah, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:Kamiah, Idaho (circa 1950).jpg|thumb|left|Kamiah, circa 1950]]

The Kamiah area has been inhabited by the [[Nez Perce people|Nez Perce]] for centuries.<ref name=khpih>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JLpeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mjAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1017%2C740762|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Kamiah holds place in history as center of Nez Perce activities|date=October 6, 1955|page=6-LCSE}}</ref><ref name=tnnms>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=34NfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wzAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5485,2911946 |newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=There is usually a logical reason for the name a town ends up with|date=February 25, 1990 |page=11-Centennial }}</ref> The name "Kamiah" is [[Nez Perce language|Nez Perce]] for "many rope litters," as Nez Perce manufactured "Kamia" ropes in the area to fish [[Rainbow trout|steelhead]]. Also according to Nez Perce tradition, the [[Appaloosa]] horse was first bred in the area.

On their return trip east, the [[Lewis and Clark Expedition]] camped in the Kamiah area for several weeks during the spring of 1806, waiting for snows to melt.<ref name=klcfcmp>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=vk9OAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5fgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6746%2C1289725 |newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=Washington |last=Ruark |first=Janice |title=Kamiah historic camp of famed Lewis, Clark |date=November 19, 1976 |page=3 }}</ref><ref name="history">[http://www.kamiahchamber.com/ Kamiah ID Chamber of Commerce] Accessed 3 February 2008</ref>

Kamiah is the character name of the Nez Perce/Blackfoot woman in ''[[Across the Wide Missouri (film)|Across the Wide Missouri]]'', a 1951 'mountain men' film set in the 1830s. Similar in fame to [[Sacagawea]] of the Lewis & Clark expedition, Kamiah led her associated mountain men's troop over the Bitterroot Range to her homeland (Three Forks, Montana for Sacagawea).

[[Hohots Ilppilp]] was the leader around Kamiah from at least the time of Lewis and Clark until the 1840s. When the first leader for all the Nez Perce was appointed, it was Hohots Ilppilp's grandson [[Ellis (Nez Perce)|Ellis]] who lived in this area and maintained large herds of sheep, cattle and over a thousand horses.<ref>Alvin M. Josephy, ''The Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest'', p. 223</ref>

Kamiah is within the [[Nez Perce people#Nez Perce Indian Reservation|Nez Perce Indian Reservation]].<ref name=nptpdfmp>{{cite news |url=http://www.nezpercegis.org/PDF/IdahoReservation.pdf |publisher=Nez Perce Tribe |agency=Geographic Information Systems |title=The Nez Perce Reservation with a Map Insert of Idaho |access-date=April 6, 2016}}</ref> Similar to the opening of lands in [[Oklahoma]], the U.S. government opened the reservation for white settlement {{Years or months ago|1895}} in November 1895. The proclamation had been signed less than two weeks earlier by President [[Grover Cleveland|Cleveland]].<ref name=np61>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lYNfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3160,3901168|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Hamilton|first=Ladd|title=Heads were popping up all over the place|date=June 25, 1961|page=14}}</ref><ref name=unrul77>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=qJxfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4374,7048300|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Brammer|first=Rhonda|title=Unruly mobs dashed to grab land when reservation opened|date=July 24, 1977|page=6E}}</ref><ref name=npop31>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=OZ5fAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uzEMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1072,1295368|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=3,000 took part in "sneak" when Nez Perce Reservation was opened|date=November 19, 1931|page=3}}</ref><ref name=21np>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cgpWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=veEDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4420,8604920|newspaper=Spokesman-Review|title=Nez Perce Reservation|date=December 11, 1921|page=5}}</ref>