A talk with John Wheaton, an emergency manager for the Nez Perce community in Idaho. We talked about his job protecting people and preparing for different situations.
The Nez Perce Reservation is in north-central Idaho and is about 770,000 acres. The tribe's traditional territory was much larger, spanning 17 million acres in what is now Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Montana.
To learn more about the Nez Perce, see:
