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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
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Menominee Ceremonial Dance

Date: 1942
Description: A Menominee ceremonial dance. The dancers are wearing Native American ceremonial dress. Although Roman Catholic missions had banned many Native American ce...
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Prominent Menominee Men

Date: 1910
Description: A group of prominent Menominee: (from left to right) Wisanokwut, Wiuskasit, Thomas Hog, Kesoafomesao, Louise Amore (or Amour), and Judge Perrote. This pho...
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Politician with Menominee Indians

Date: 1959
Description: Wisconsin State Senator Alfred A. Laun (R.) of Kiel, participating in what appears to be a square dance with Menominee Indians and others. This image is pa...
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Menominee Indian Family

Date: 1931
Description: A portrait of a Menominee family in traditional dress. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt.
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Mr. Bearskin

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Description: Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau sitting in front of of a wigwam covered with elm bark. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Ameri...
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Mr. Bearskin

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Description: Mr. Bearskin, a medicine man, at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, first cur...
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Chippewa Settlement

Date: 1925
Description: Native American settlement. This photograph is thought to represent a view of the Chippewa (Ojibwa) settlement at Lac du Flameau. Probably photographed by ...
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Native Americans and Whites

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Description: An unexplained group consisting of two white men, two white children, and two Native American women standing in front of a tent. The original caption stat...
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Native American Man Wearing Native American Costume

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Description: "John," a Native American wearing a combination of traditional and western dress. Among the western items he is wearing are black velvet, sleigh bells, a f...
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Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway

Date: 1903
Description: Hand-colored postcard depicting Ojibwa Chief Obtossaway. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first cur...
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Chippewa Man

Date: 1913
Description: A studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of an unidentified Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian from the Bad River Indian Reservation at Odanah. The man is we...
Postcard

Chippewa Portrait

Date: 1913
Description: A postcard of a Native American (Ojibwa) at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt...
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Elderly Chippewa

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Description: Pussafuss, an elderly Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the first curator of p...
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Elderly Chippewa Man

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Description: White Feather, an elderly Chippewa (Ojibwa) man said to be 129-years-old. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbi...
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Wa-Baun-See

Date: 1838
Description: Wau-Baun-See, a hand-colored lithographic portrait of a Potawatamie Indian. This image from McKenney & Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes," (1849-1850) ...
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Shab-eh-nay

Date: 1858
Description: A formal photographic portrait of the Potowatomi chief Shab-eh-nay (Shau-be-na, or Shabbona), who died in 1859. Shab-eh-nay was photographed shortly before...
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Shaubena

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Description: A formal portrait of the Potowatomie chief Shaubena or (Shabona) made at Hennepin, Illinois shortly before his death in 1859. Shaubena was a grandnephew o...
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Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...

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