On the way from Cody, Wyoming to the northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park the drive takes you to Dead Indian Summit Overlook, part of the Dead Indian Pass associated with the Nez Perce, Native America tribe. The summit is at 8,071 elevation in Wyoming on the Chief Joseph Scenic Byway, Highway 296. It crosses the Absaroka Range near Dead Indian Gulch, Dead Indian Mountain and Dead Indian Mesa all part of the Rocky Mountains through a series of switchbacks. "The Nez Perce (/ˌnɛzˈpɜːrs/; autonym: Niimíipuu, meaning "the walking people" or "we, the people") are an Indigenous people of the Plateau who have lived on the Columbia River Plateau in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States for at least 11,500 years."
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