Our church is putting some seed money into it.

That remains to be seen. We hope to incorporate other things like music and P.E.

That's going to depend on enrollment.

We simply want to offer academics in a Christian environment.

In a short time a group of commissioners arrived to begin organization of a new Indian agency in the valley. One of them mentioned the advantages of schools for Joseph’s people. Joseph replied that the Nez Percés did not want the white man’s schools. “Why do you not want schools?” the commissioner asked. “They will teach us to have churches,” Joseph answered. “Do you not want churches?” “No, we do not want churches.” “Why do you not want churches?” “They will teach us to quarrel about God,” Joseph said. “We do not want to learn that. We may quarrel with men sometimes about things on this earth, but we never quarrel about God. We do not want to learn that.

We take a real soft approach. We're not affiliated with any church. We stick to the fundamentals of faith and keep it basic.