MENU Eruption and White Bird Canyon Looking Glass's Camp and Cottonwood Kamiah, Weippe, and Fort Fizzle Cow Island and Cow Creek Canyon Bear's Paw: Attack and Defense Bear's Paw: Siege and Surrender |
Appendix B: (Sources: McWhorter, Hear Me, pp. 253-54, 267-71, 292, 323, 328 n. 7, 336-39, 374, 424-25, 486; McWhorter, Yellow Wolf, 60, 76-77, 186 n. 5, 290; MacDonald, "Nez Perces," 243-44; "Nez Perce Warriors, 1877"; Haines, An Elusive Victory, 167-69; and Otis Halfmoon, telephone communication with author, May 2, 1996.) I. White Bird Canyon, June 17, 1877. NONE KILLED WOUNDED Chellooyeen (Bow and Arrow Case)wounded, right side waist. II. Looking Glass's Camp, July 1, 1877. KILLED Nennin Chekoostin (Black Raven)died of wounds. WOUNDED Temme Ilppilp (Red Heart)gunshot wound in right thigh. IIIa. Rains's Encounter, Cottonwood, July 3, 1877. NONE KILLED OR WOUNDED IIIb. Cottonwood Skirmish, July 4, 1877. NONE KILLED OR WOUNDED IIIc. Volunteers' Fight, Cottonwood, July 5, 1877. KILLED Weesculatat, or Mimpow Owyeen (Open Mouth)died of wounds. WOUNDED Two unidentified warriors IV. Clearwater, July 11-12, 1877. KILLED Wayakat (Going Across) WOUNDED Howwallits (Mean Man)injured by howitzer fire in village. V. Kamiah, July 13, 1877. NONE KILLED OR WOUNDED VI. Weippe Prairie, July 17, 1877. NONE KILLED OR WOUNDED VII. Big Hole, August 9-10, 1877. KILLED
(In addition to these individuals, at least nine other Indian men, women, and children of undetermined identities died at the Big Hole, with total fatalities perhaps numbering between sixty and ninety killed.) WOUNDED
(Certainly many more Nee-Me-Poo were wounded in the fighting at the Big Hole.) VIII. Camas Meadows, August 20, 1877. KILLED Unknown, but possibly six warriors killed in Norwood's encounter. WOUNDED Exact number unknown. One was Peopeo Tholekttwounded in head. IX. Canyon Creek, September 13, 1877. KILLED Tookleiks (Fish Trap)possibly killed on September 14, 1877. WOUNDED Silooyelamleft ankle. X. Cow Island, September 23, 1877. KILLED None WOUNDED Husis Owyeen (Wounded Head)grazed by wood splintered by bullet XI. Cow Creek Canyon, September 25, 1877. Casualties unknown. XII. Bear's Paw, September 30-October 5, 1877. KILLED
(At least eleven other people died during the fighting at Bear's Paw, most of them killed during the first day's combat.) WOUNDED
(Estimates of the number of wounded in the six days of fighting at Bear's Paw range between forty and sixty.) XIII. Killed by enemy tribesmen during the course of the war.
XIV. Killed, but with place and circumstances unknown. Imnawahna |
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