Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign Brig. Gen. O. O. Howard commanding. Conservation of this piece was funded by Ron Grim in honor of Gayl B. and Paul D. McDermott. Relief shown by hachures. Key events of campaign illustrated on perimeter. Removed from War Dept. Report, 1877, Inset: Scene of the America Transformed: This military map records the Nez Perce War in 1877, one of the final campaigns of the Army against the tribal nations of the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, a Union Civil War leader, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and a founder of How
Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign Brig. Gen. O. O. Howard commanding. Conservation of this piece was funded by Ron Grim in honor of Gayl B. and Paul D. McDermott. Relief shown by hachures. Key events of campaign illustrated on perimeter. Removed from War Dept. Report, 1877, Inset: Scene of the America Transformed: This military map records the Nez Perce War in 1877, one of the final campaigns of the Army against the tribal nations of the Pacific Northwest. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard, a Union Civil War leader, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and a founder of Howard University, led troops. They pursued several bands of Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) who refused to surrender their ancestral lands and move to a smaller reservation in Idaho. Threatened with forced removal, they embarked on a northward trek to find sanctuary in Canada. After a fighting retreat of 1,170 miles and 18 skirmishes and battles, they surrendered just south of the Canadian , Northwestern United States ,area
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