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  • Looking Across the Battlefield at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain passes; Peace; Peace...
  • Landscape view across the battlefield at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain) where the Nez Perce dug shelter pits for the noncombatants. With freezing weather and limited food supplies, suffering was very great among the Nez Perce. Though...
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  • Looking Across c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain Battlefield)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain passes; Peace; Peace...
  • Landscape view of the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain battlefield) looking down from the bluff. It was here that Nez Perce warriors dug in and fired upon Colonel Miles' men during the last battle of the Nez Perce War of 1877. This was the...
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  • Nez Perce camp across Clearwater River
  • Battlefields--Idaho--Clearwater Battlefield; Land--Mountains; Valleys--Canyons; Historic sites--Idaho--Stites; Clearwater River Idaho, Battleridge; Nez Perce
  • This picture shows the battle ridge on the right and the Nez Perce camp across the river. On verso of the photograph: " Foot of the hill where Nez Perce come down in their retreat, Clearwater Battle , 11-12-1877. River is not shown. South last of...
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  • View across the Custer Battlefield
  • Campaigns & battles, Battlefields--Montana--Little Big Horn; Land--Hills; Historic sites--Battlefields; Indians of North America; Wars--Campaigns of North America; Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876; Kopac, Emil
  • Looking across the Custer battlefield from a southeasterly direction. The Battle of Little Big Horn was also known as Custer's Last Stand, and by the Native Americans it is referred to as the Battle of Greasy Grass Creek. This was a battle between...
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  • Tree felled
  • Forest; Nez Perce
  • Site where tree felled across a ravine by soldiers, 'ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole Battlefield), 1913.
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  • Site where hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf) killed a soldier
  • River; Nez Perce
  • Soldier killed by hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf), in the opening in willow thicket, seen across the ' ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole River), ' ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole Battlefield).
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  • Nez Perce tim’úuni (Rifle) Pits and Marker at c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Mountain)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Bear Paw Battlefield; Cavalry--United States Army--Washington (state)--Bear Paw; Land--Mountains; Land--Rock formations; Landscape photographs; Military retreats; Monuments & memorials; Mountains (Montana); Passes--Mountain...
  • On the back of the photo: "Looking across the battlefield of Bear Paw Mountains with the Nez Perce rifle pit at the left and Indian marker nearby, while other markers and scar between them appear in the distant center. Photo Nov 24th 1932 by Emil...
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  • páaxat'ipéetehemkt' (Five Fogs') tim’úuni (bow)
  • Bow and arrow; Weapons; Campaigns & battles; Bow and arrow making; Nimíipuu; Nez Perce
  • This tim’úuni (bow) belonged to páaxat'ipéetehemkt (Five Fogs), a Nimíipuu (Nez Perce) warrior who fought in the Nez Perce War of 1877, including the significant battle ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (The Battle of the Big Hole). páaxat'ipéetehemkt (Five Fogs)...
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  • Old Spalding Mission
  • Missions; Cabins; Nez Perce
  • Three people, including two Native Americans, stand in front of the old Spalding Mission, which stood near the bank of the Clearwater at Spalding, Idaho. It has since been moved and converted into a museum building. This photograph was likely...
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  • wal'áwa (Wallowa Valley)
  • Landscape; Nez Perce
  • Photo of wal'áwa (Wallowa Valley) in Oregon across from Seven Devil Mountains, Idaho.
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  • Death Valley
  • Landscape
  • Photo of view looking across Death Valley.
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  • Monument to Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph) of the Nez Perce
  • Monument; Old Chief Joseph; Nez Perce
  • Photograph of Tiwi-teqis' (Old Chief Joseph's) monument at wal'áwa (Wallowa Lake, Oregon). Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph) of Nez Perce, a father of the Chieftain who conducted the campaign of 1877 in the retreat across Idaho and Montana at his...
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  • Lookout over Whitebird Highway
  • Landscape; Nez Perce
  • Lookout point of Whitebird highway.
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  • Retreat of the Soldiers
  • Bridge; Nez Perce
  • Site where soldiers retreated across Pole Bridge. In foreground, pole bridge (comparatively recent). At extreme right, ford where old trail crossed the 'ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole River). The soldiers retreated up the timbered slopes seen back of...
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