Topic summary
Nez Perce people
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Nez Perce.
Culture
Nez Perce people historically depended on various Pacific salmon and Pacific trout for their food: Chinook salmon or nacoox (Oncorhynchus tschawytscha) were eaten the most, but other species such as Pacific lamprey (Entosphenus tridentatus or Lampetra tridentata), and chiselmouth (Gila alutacea) were eaten too. Other important fishes included the sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka), silver salmon or ka'llay (Oncorhynchus kisutch), chum salmon or dog salmon or ka'llay (Oncorhynchus keta), mountain whitefish or ci'mey (Prosopium williamsoni), white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus), white sucker or mu'quc (Catostomus commersonii), and varieties of trout – West Coast steelhead or heyey (Oncorhynchus mykiss), brook trout or pi'ckatyo (Salvelinus fontinalis), bull trout or i'slam (Salvelinus confluentus), and cutthroat trout or wawa'lam (Oncorhynchus clarkii).