In 1877, Chief Joseph led the Wallowa Band of Nez Perce Indians from their homeland in Wallowa Valley in Northeast Oregon across Idaho and Montana only to surrender a few miles short of the Canadian border. Over a century later, rural Wallowa County community activists and neighboring Tribal leaders on the Colville and Umatilla Reservations started a project to right this ancient wrong.

PARC worked with this group to devise a plan for sustaining and supporting the Wallowa Homeland Project. Today, an annual friendship feast and pow wow brings together descendents of the homesteaders who occupied the land from which the natives were driven and Nez Perce Tribal descendents from Lapwai, Colville and Umatilla. These former adversaries gather annually to celebrate the beauty of their homeland and to pay their respects to the history of both the native and non-native pioneers.

PARC developed a feasibility and business plan which helped the group organize and buy a large tract of land near a traditional Indian summer encampment site, which is now a place of healing and friendship for all people.