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Original hand-drawn color document, 56 x 43 cm. At the top is a combat between piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt) and a ceeptitím’nin (Cheyenne) at the c'aynim 'alikinwaaspa (Bear Paw Battle). At the bottom is the capture of a cannon from U.S. soldiers at the ‘ickum’kiléelixpe (Battle of Big Hole). Both are drawn by piyopyóot’alikt (Peo-Peo Tholekt). In the summer of 1927, three Nez Perce (piyopyóot’alikt (Peo Peo Tholekt), hímiin maqsmáqs (Yellow Wolf), and 'iléxni 'éewteesin' (Many Wounds)) and Yakima rancher Lucullus V. McWhorter traveled to the battlefields of the 1877 Nez Perce War and wrote down the Nez Perce's memories of what had happened.
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2022Rights:
Copyright on this map either depends on first date of publication, or if determined to be unpublished then this is in public domain as rights would have expired in 2015, 70 years after the second of the two creators passed.
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Is found in Cage 55, Lucullus V. McWhorter Papers https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/cg55.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/mascIdentifier:
cg055osf562_1Subject:
Battlefields--Montana--Big Hole Battlefield, Bear Paw, Battle of, Mont., 1877, Nez Perce National Historical Parks, 1866-1895, Tholekt, Peo Peo, Nez PerceType:
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