Nez Perce
Lifestyles
By: Jackie Y.
The Nez Perce Indians live in different types of shelter.
One
of their shelters were tipis. 
The Nez Perce
Indians called their
tipis dwellings. It took a lot of work to the tipi up and
getting all of the material for it. When the Nez Perce found the right
home they started getting tired of sleeping on the ground so they wanted to move
on.
The longhouses back in the old age were big and had many uses. The Nez
Perce Indians would keep their medicines in the longhouses. They could fit about 30
families in 1 longhouse.
They always shared their longhouses with each other and their families. Each longhouse was
about 15ft. wide and 60 to 100ft. long. Longhouses are not always square
some are semi-circle shaped.
Each year the Nez Perce were on a journey looking for food. They would travel on foot or canoe for about 100 miles every year. They start collecting food in the Spring. They gathered lots of bulbs and other vegetables. Some Nez Perce used ice caves for storage. They stored lots of food that would be saved as supplies in the Winter. They used dried roots, berries and more. There was other kinds of roots gathered for the Winter then dried roots. They used different types of berries too one of them was gooseberries. They gathered other foods than dried roots and berries like black moss and sunflower seeds.
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