'IWÉETEM (Wallowa Lake, Oregon)

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Cultural Narrative: 

Site of wal'áwa (Wallowa Lake, Oregon). Where Tiwi-teqis (Old Chief Joseph) was buried. "The beautiful valley in which this lake sets was occupied through a broken treaty with the Nez Perces. It was the ancestral home, and burial place of Old Chief Joseph"

Community: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce]
Protocol: 
Nimíipuu [Nez Perce] Public Access
Category: 
Wars/Military/Conflict
Collections: 
Lucullus V. McWhorter
Creator: 
Kopac, Emil, 1886-1970
Rights: 
In copyright. Item will go into the public domain 70 years after the 1970 death of the creator. See http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/.
Source: 
Is found in PC85, Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/pc85.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collection (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Identifier: 
pc_085_b01_f03_011
Subject: 
Lake, Nez Perce
Type: 
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Format: 
JPG