The Daughter of the Nez Perces is a novel written by Arthur Paterson in 1894. The story is set in the late 19th century and follows the life of a young Native American girl named Wapiti, who is a member of the Nez Perce tribe. Wapiti is raised by her father, who is the chief of the tribe, and her mother, who is a medicine woman. As Wapiti grows up, she becomes more and more interested in the ways of the white man and begins to question her own culture...