The Nez Perce Chief Who Refused To Surrender 40 Miles From Canada — Then Slipped Past The Army And Escaped
But the community was not intact in a human sense.
Big Hole killed people whose deaths could not be accepted in the strategic framework of “losses sustained in battle.” The losses were personal, specific, and devastating.
The survivors carried them through every subsequent day of the flight.
Yellow Wolf’s memoir describes Big Hole in terms that make clear the psychological and emotional weight of what happened there.
The subsequent movements of the flight were conducted by people carrying that weight — not just the physical weight of the march but the weight of what they had seen.
White Bird’s decision at Bear Paw must be understood in the context of Big Hole.
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