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Article: CEREMONY TO MARK NEZ PERCE CONFINEMENT.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 13, 1998
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In 1878, the U.S. Army released 33 members of Chief Red Heart's band. They'd been held here for eight months to teach other Nez Perce the folly of resisting relocation to the tribe's dwindling reservation lands in Idaho.
Wednesday, descendants of those 33 people will meet with city officials at a reconciliation ceremony to honor those prisoners of 120 years ago. The ceremony could become an annual event.
``It's not a powwow,'' tribal executive committee member Wilfred Scott said. ``We're there to honor the ancestors and the memories of those who suffered.''
Mayor Royce Pollard sees the occasion as an opportunity to begin working with regional ...