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    "localId": "1257bc34g",
    "label": "Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign Brig. Gen. O. O. Howard commanding",
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    "title": "Map of the Nez Perce Indian campaign Brig. Gen. O. O. Howard commanding",
    "description": "America Transformed: This military map records the Nez Perce War in 1877, one of the final campaigns of the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 border.",
    "date": "[\"[1877]\"]",
    "year": 1877,
    "citationUrl": "https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:1257bc34g",
    "rights": "No known copyright restrictions.",
    "rightsUri": "No known restrictions on use.",
    "reuseAllowed": "no restrictions",
    "language": "English",
    "identifierLocal": "06_01_014287",
    "creators": [
        "United States. Army. Dept. of the Columbia",
        "Fletcher, Robert H.",
        "Howard, O. O.",
        "United States. War Dept"
    ],
    "institution": "Boston Public Library",
    "collections": [
        "Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection"
    ],
    "subjects": [
        "Indians of North America--Wars--1866-1895--Maps",
        "Nez Percé Indians--History--Maps",
        "Nez Percé Indians--Wars, 1877--Maps",
        "Northwestern States--Maps"
    ],
    "subjectsGeographic": [
        "North and Central America",
        "Northwestern United States",
        "United States"
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    "country": "United States",
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    "extent": "1 map ; 54 x 116 cm.",
    "notes": [
        "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 U.S. War Dept. Report, 1877, v.1.",
        "Inset: Scene of the outbreak."
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