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  • White Feather
  • White Feather; Nez Perce
  • Sitting Nez Perce woman; This Nez Perce Girl represents the tragic side of war as well as the tradition to have different successive names within the Nez Perce tribe. She lost her family during the ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Battle of the Big Hole) in...
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  • Valley of the ' ickum'kiléelixpe (Big Hole)
  • Battlefields--Montana--Big Hole Battlefield; Land--Mountains; Valleys--Canyons; Historic sites--Montana; Gunfights; Bannack Yellowstone Park; Clark's Fork; Joseph, Gibbons; Nez Perce
  • Scenic view of the valley in which the 'ickum'kiléelixpe (Bighole Battle) took place. On September 9th, hinmatóoyalahtq’it (Chief Joseph) led his warriors against General Gibbon's army, who attacked the Nez Perce and drove them from their village....
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  • ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Big Hole) camp
  • Big Hole, Battle of the, Mont., 1877; Big Hole National Battlefield (Mont.); Battlefields--Montana; Land--Mountains; Valleys--Montana; Canyons--Montana; Historic sites--Montana; Chief Joseph; Gibbons; Nez Perce
  • Nez Perce camp ground at the ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Big Hole Battlefield). On verso of photograph: "Looking into the valley of the Big Hole where Chief Joseph's Nez Perces was encamped on Sept 9th when he was attacked by the command of General Gibbons...
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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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  • Mounted Yakama Indian horseback
  • Yakama Indians, Hunters; Me-yáy'-wah; Feast of new food
  • Yakama hunter mounted on horseback. The hunt was for the "Feast of New Food." This Feast is an annual ceremony of invocation and thanksgiving to Me-yA¡y'-wah, the Supreme Being. Notes on the back of photograph: "this hunt is for the annual 'Feast...
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  • View Across Canyon Creek píiwapciy'awniwaas (Battlefield)
  • Canyons; Rivers; Forests; Nez Perce
  • Writing on the back of the photograph reads "Canyon with Creek, through which Gen. Howards' wagon train was let down held by ropes tethered to trees in Yellowstone Park."
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