Many children were killed, many, many babies were killed. The newborn baby that was born two days ago they thought it would be safe, and they went inside the tent, they crushed the babies head with the rifle butt and killed the mother. They started setting fire to some of these tipis. Some of them did not catch because the dew was very think on them yet. But some of these tipis did catch. They remember hearing the screams of the children inside being burned to death inside. All these things were taking place. It was terrible.

The Nez Perce were driven on the outside. This side here was completely taken, this whole section was a village area. The other side the soldiers had much more rough a time.

Some of our bravest warriors died during this battle. Again, where inside Nez Perce history. Waaliitits, a great warrior. He was one of the three that were Salmon River raised:Waaliitits, Saapsis ‘ilpilp, and Wetyetmes weheyqt.

But Waaliitits he died on the other side over there. In fact there was a terrible thing of how he died. He greeted his soldiers, and he went over there and he jumped inside his rifle pit to face them out toward the soldiers. He had to lay by this log and they were shooting at him. Later on he felt somebody behind him and he turned around and it was his wife. She layed right next to him and he turned around and said, “Run, run, it’s dangerous out here, ‘ayyi ‘c (danger), run.” But she didn’t run. She wanted to stay by her husband. And soon a volley came over and hit him right in the neck and just flipped him over. She grabbed the weapon of her husband and killed that soldier that killed her husband. Then a volley killed her. When the Nez Perce recovered the area they found her draped over her husband just like she was trying to protect him. These things took place.