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Fort Howard dans La Grand Baie Verte (Ouisconsin)

Date: 1842
Description: This hand-colored lithograph of the second Fort Howard, with Indians canoeing on the Fox River, shows the hospital built 1834-1835 outside the stockade on ...
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View of the Butte des Morts Treaty Ground, with the arrival of the Commissioners Gov. Lewis Cass and Col. McKenny

Date: 1835
Description: Little Lake Butte Des Morts just north of Lake Winnebago where Governor Lewis Cass of Michigan, and Thomas McKenney, head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (...
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Simon Onanguisse Kahquados

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Description: Simon Onanguisse Kahquados (1851-1930) of Forest County, Wisconsin, the last hereditary chief of the Potowatomi. This image is part of an exhibit about Nat...
Photograph

Outdoor Portrait of Ho-Chunk Man

Date: 07 24 1946
Description: Outdoor full-length portrait of Sam Blowsnake-Carley at Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) Indian Village wearing a headdress in front of a teepee.
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"The Warrior And His Bride"

Date: 1873
Description: Stereograph of a Native American man and woman, both Ute Indians, on horseback.
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Chief Cloud

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Description: Chief Cloud, in center, of the Chippewa Indians (Ojibwa) standing outdoors with other men.
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Indians Thresh Wheat

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Description: Indians thresh the first wheat at the Sac and Fox Agency in Iowa.
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Sioux Tepees

Date: 1898
Description: Sioux tepees at the Trans-Mississippi Exposition and Indian Congress.
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Portrait of Seated Ho-Chunk Woman

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk woman. She is sitting on a prop stone wall and is wearing a dress with earrings and long strands of beads. She is...
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Peavy Falls Group, Menominee Indians

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Description: "Peavy Falls Group" of men and boys posed on bank of river. There is a man in a canoe in the river, and a footbridge in the background.
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Indian Pow-Wow

Date: 07 28 1929
Description: Indian pow wow at Bear Trap Falls near Keshena.
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Bear Trap Falls

Date: 1929
Description: Group of people at Bear Trap Falls in the Wolf River near Keshena. People are standing on the shoreline on the left near a sign for the falls. A man is sta...
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Copy Photograph of Ho-Chunk Boy

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Description: Copy photograph of a studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk boy posed sitting on a prop stone wall wearing a suit. The original is probably not taken by Van Schaick...
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Studio Portrait of Standing Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Pigeon – “He Cho Kah”. Born 1875, died August 1915. Posed standing near a prop stone wal...
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Portrait of a Young Ho-Chunk Man in Regalia

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Frank Winnesheik posing standing. He has his right hand on a prop wooden fence, and is wearin...
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Studio Portrait of a Standing Ho-Chunk Man

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Description: Studio full-length portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed standing with his right hand on a prop wooden fence and wearing a suit, ...
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Two Ho-Chunk Men Seated at a Table

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on a prop fence on the left writing a letter on a small table with his right...
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Studio Portrait of Ho-Chunk Father and Son

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Description: Full-length studio portrait of Thomas Thunder (Hoonk Ha Ga Kah) (Son of [Wa Con Cha Kah] John Thunder aka Dr. Thunder and [We Hon Pe Kaw] Lucy Bear, Thunde...
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Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio full-length portrait of two Ho-Chunk men posed in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the left is sitting on a prop stone wall and another Ho-Ch...
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Studio Portrait of Two Ho-Chunk Men

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk man posed sitting on the left on a prop stone wall, and Henry Winneshiek (ni do ni KA) on the ...

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