No one knows exactly when the Nez Perce first came to the valley.

没有人确切知道内兹佩尔塞人第一次来到瓦洛瓦山谷是什么时候。

Many Nez Perce fled. Chief Joseph remained, because his wife was about to have a baby.

很多内兹佩尔塞印第安人都逃跑了。但是约瑟夫酋长留了下来，因为他的妻子将要生育了。

The creation stories told by the Nez Perce and Palouse Indian tribes even contain similar flood elements.

内兹珀斯和帕卢斯印第安部落讲述的创造故事甚至包含类似的洪水元素。

And so in June of eighteen seventy-seven, the Nez Perce left their home in the Wallowa Valley.

所以在1877年7月，内兹佩尔塞印第安人离开了他们在瓦洛瓦山谷的家。

Many weeks after the Nez Perce had left their home lands, they reached the Bear Paw Mountains.

内兹佩尔塞印第安人离开他们的家乡很多周以后，他们到达了熊掌山。

The young Nez Perce men were skilled with their guns. They knew the land. And they were calm in battle.

年轻的内兹佩尔塞人枪法非常熟练。他们了解这片土地。而且他们在战斗中非常镇静。

Today, LARRY WEST and WARREN SCHEER begin the story of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce Indians.

今天，拉里·韦斯特和沃伦·希尔为您讲述内兹佩尔塞印第安人酋长约瑟夫的故事。

Other Nez Perce chiefs, however -- beyond the valley -- signed treaties to give up their lands.

然而，山谷之外的其他内兹佩尔塞酋长签署了放弃他们土地的条约。

Those were the words the Nez Perce used to describe the noise that lightning makes in the mountains.

这些话语是内兹佩尔塞人经常用来形容闪电在群山中发出的声响。

They were only eighty kilometers from Canada. The Nez Perce were close to their goal. But safety was not yet in sight.

那离加拿大只有80千米。内兹佩尔塞印第安人离他们的目标很近了。但是他们还不安全。

In eighteen seventy-seven, the American government decided to move the Nez Perce Indians from their land in the northwestern part of the country.

1877年，美国政府决定将内兹佩尔塞印第安人从他们居住的位于美国西北部的土地上迁移出去。

The Nez Perce did not own the land. They had not bought it from anyone else. They possessed no documents of ownership.

内兹佩尔塞人并不拥有这片土地。这不是他们从任何人那里买来的。他们没有土地所有权的文件。

The Wallowa Valley is the old man's home -- and the home of the Nez Perce people -- for as long as anyone can remember.

瓦洛瓦山谷是这位老人的家，也是内兹·佩尔塞人的家。只要有人还记得这个事实。

The Nez Perce agreed to take care of the animals until then.

内兹珀斯人同意在此之前照顾这些动物。

On the prairie below, the explorers met many Nez Perce Indians.

在下面的草原上， 探险者遇到了许多内兹珀斯印第安人。

During the Moon When the Ponies Shed—also known as May—the explorers returned to the Nez Perce Indians.

在 The Moon When the Ponies Shed（也称为五月）期间， 探险家们返回了内兹珀斯印第安人。