Calling All Warriors
...to follow Jesus, "Creator-Sets-Free"
An event sponsored by the Suicide Prevention Action Network Idaho (SPAN) and Sources of Strength was the reason a special visitor came to Nez Perce Country.
Supaman! No, not the one from the planet Krypton, the one from Crow Agency in Montana.
[Read more…] about Supaman says: Love Family, Respect Elders, and Care for Yourself
We were privileged to have Kamiah Community members Wayde and Michele WhiteEagle at the KIYE Studio in Kamiah.
Wayde is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Tribe and a Sergeant with the Nez Perce Tribal Police. Michele and Wayde have been married for almost 21 years. They have two daughters, one is married and has two children and their other daughter just graduated with honors from Kamiah High School. Michele works part time at the Kamiah Clinic and serves in ministry as a worship leader at Clearwater Valley Assembly of God and Living Waters Healing Rooms, an International Ministry, praying for people and their needs.
January 31, 2015
The Nimiipuu welcomed visitors from the Wounan Tribe in Panama recently.
The Wounan are one of seven different indigenous groups in Panama. They live primarily in the Darien region of Panama and the Choco department in Colombia, although they have communities in other regions of both countries. In 1983, Panamanian Law created the Comarca Embera-Wounaan, an autonomous area covering over 1 million acres that represents 27 percent of the Darien region. Originally cogoverned by the Wounaan and Embera, the two split governance in 1983 as the Wounaan felt they were underrepresented given their smaller population numbers.Historically, the Wounaan were hunters, gatherers, and adept fisherfolk.
By Patricia Angle, December 15, 2014
Early December, a special cross-cultural event took place at the the Nez Perce community Pi-nee-waus community center. Colorful Maasai warriors met the Nez Perce in a cultural exchange. Both cultures were at full display, which included dancing, art work, and of course food!
[Read more…] about Cultural Exchange: The Maasai Meet The Nimiipuu
Julia Keefe, (Nez Perce) was born in 1989 in Seattle, WA. She has lived on both coasts of the U.S. Several of her formative years were spent in Kamiah, Idaho on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation. Recently, she graduated with honors from the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music in Coral Gables, FL, studying jazz vocal performance.
Julia began singing jazz while in the seventh grade at St. George’s School in Spokane. She was a participant at the annual Lionel Hampton International Jazz Festival in Moscow, ID for five years as a soloist and in award winning choir and ensemble groups. In 2007, Julia won an outstanding vocal soloist award at the Lionel Hampton Festival.
For someone on the outside looking in, she had it all. Beauty, notoriety, influence, financial security. Millions of people regularly watched her news reports on the national TV show, CBS This Morning. She had won several Emmy Awards for her outstanding work, rubbed shoulders with Presidents, First Ladies, Actors and Musicians and covered human interest stories from wildfires to crimes. However, when her husband of seventeen years unexpectedly asked for a divorce, she was thrown into a deep emotional crisis, questioning her identity and value.
