The farmland purchase reclaims an ancestral village site known as βthe place of boulders,β or AmβsΓ‘axpa, in the Eastern Oregon town of Joseph more than a century after the Nez Perce Tribe was pushed out the area.
βBuying the land back demonstrates the tribeβs resilience, Williamson-Cloud said, and it has much deeper meaning for the tribal community than simply having legal title.β


















