There were terrible sounds that happened down in this valley, this beautiful valley. The soldiers talk about it, as well as Nez Perce. As Yellow Wolf says, “you never wanted to hear that sound again.” The people coming back to the village area, the children dead laying on the ground, babies with heads crushed laying on the ground, their wives killed, their parents killed. And again the cries that came from this place, the sorrow, the sadness.

The soldiers even talked about that sound that came from this beautiful area.

The Nez Perce held them that night August 9. They kept them there the next day and then the Nez Perce retreated and they went down south and headed eventually to Yellowstone. But the Nez Perce buried their dead all out through this location.

It is not over. The general Howard finally arrived. He arrived and had Shoshone Bannock Scouts. These Shoshone Scouts came down below here and opened up our graves of all of our people and scalped and mutilated all of our dead, women and children that they could find. This is what happened inside this beautiful, beautiful location we call ‘ickum ‘kum ‘eelxnim