Editing Lapwai, Idaho (section)

==History==
[[File:First Presbyterian Church - Lapwai Idaho.jpg|thumb|left|Historic [[First Presbyterian Church (Lapwai, Idaho)|First Presbyterian Church]]]]
The area that is today Lapwai was the home of Hin-ma-tute-ke-kaikt, also known as Big Thunder and later as James.  It was here that [[Henry H. Spalding|Henry Spalding]] established a Protestant mission among the [[Nez Perce people|Nez Perce]] in 1836.  This was also the general region that [[William Craig (frontiersman and trapper)|Bill Craig]] settled, since his wife was James' daughter.<ref>Alvin M. Joseph, ''The Nez Perce and the Opening of the Northwest'' (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1971)</ref>

The city's predecessor, [[Fort Lapwai]], operated on the site from 1863 to 1884. The village of Lapwai was incorporated in 1911,<ref name=lmt71>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=R7JfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DDMMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4865,5285065|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|last=Wilson|first=Carol|title=Lapwai became village -- 60 years ago today|date=January 30, 1971|page=6}}</ref><ref name=lpgrow>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=F5JfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7jAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3900,1935481|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Lapwai growing|date=October 29, 1911|page=10}}</ref> with a model rural school.<ref name=rursch12>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=aZJfAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8TAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6202,2416968|newspaper=Lewiston Morning Tribune|title=Historic Fort Lapwai now site of model rural school|date=April 21, 1912|page=9}}</ref>

The word "Lapwai" means place of the [[Butterfly|butterflies]], as the area had thousands in early summer in earlier years.<ref name=lpasdc77>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=V_tLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AvkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6659,2923869|newspaper=Spokane Daily Chronicle|location=(Washington)|title=Once early-day fort, Lapwai Indians' home |last=Ruark |first=Janice|date=November 25, 1977|page=3}}</ref>

Lapwai is part of the [[Lewiston, Idaho|Lewiston]], ID-[[Washington (state)|WA]] [[Lewiston, Idaho metropolitan area|Metropolitan Statistical Area]].